Born in Favras near Blois, he belonged to an impoverished family whose nobility dated from the 12th century.

A fortnight after the arrest, Favras and his wife were separated, and Favras was removed to the Grand Châtelet.

* The very literary Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras ( 1744 – 1790 ), was arrested by the radicals of the French Revolution and charged with plotting to help King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette escape the country.

Favras took the unfortunate step of taking into his confidence certain officers by whom he was betrayed.

It was stated in a leaflet circulated throughout Paris on December 23, 1789 that Favras had been hired by the Comte de Provence to organize an elaborate plot against the people of France.

However, an armed attempt to free him by some Royalists on January 26, which was thwarted by La Fayette, aroused the suspicion of the Parisians, and on February 18, 1790, in spite of a notable defense plea, Favras was sentenced to be hanged.

Although he had previously implicated others in the conspiracy ( most notably, the Comte d ' Antraigues ), Favras refused to give any further information to the authorities on the plot's details or participants, and his sentence was carried out in the Place de Grève the next day-a measure which was received with enthusiasm by members of the Parisian population, since it was the first instance when no distinction in the mode of execution was allowed between noble and commoner.

Favras was generally regarded as a martyr to the Royalist cause for his refusal to implicate the Comte de Provence, and Madame de Favras was pensioned by Louis XVI.

She left France, and her son Charles de Favras served in the Habsburg and the Imperial Russian armies.

* December 23 – A leaflet circulated in France accuses marquis de Favras of plotting to rescue the royal family.

* Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras ( 1744 – 1790 ), royalist

Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras ( March 26, 1744 – February 19, 1790 ) was a French aristocrat and supporter of the House of Bourbon during the French Revolution.

In order to finance this venture, Provence ( using one of his gentlemen, the Comte de la Chàtre, as an intermediary ) commissioned Favras to negotiate a loan of two million francs from the bankers Schaumel and Sartorius.

Terrified of the consequences of the arrest, the Comte de Provence hastened to publicly disavow Favras, in a speech delivered before the Commune of Paris, and in a letter to the National Constituent Assembly.

Even Sylvain Maréchal, the anarchist editor of the republican newspaper Révolutions de Paris, admitted that the evidence against Favras was insufficient.

After his marriage, Favras went to Vienna to attempt the restitution of his wife's rights, and spent some time in Warsaw.

As a consequence of the leaflet, Favras and his wife were arrested the next day, and imprisoned in the Abbaye Prison.

The official dossier of Favras ' trial for high treason against the nation disappeared from the Châtelet, but its substance is preserved in the papers of a clerk.

In 1776 he married Eva König, who was then a widow, in Jork ( near Hamburg ).

He married Helena Cookes ( an amateur botanical illustrator, and erstwhile patient of his ) in 1772 ; they had three children ( the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few days later, William was born in 1776, and Charlotte in 1778 ).

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Their son James Grier Ward ( 1765 – 1824 ) was born in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, and married Catherine Rogers ( 1776 – 1829 ).

Frederick's younger sister, Sophie Dorothea, had married Tsesarevich Paul, future Emperor of Russia, in 1776.

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He married, firstly Sophia Conyers in 1743, and secondly Hesther Margaret Munday in 1776.

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In 1776 Mackenzie married Penuel, daughter of Sir Ludovich Grant of Grant.

He married, in 1776, Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, but was soon divorced and then married again.

Grey married Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby ( 1776 – 1861 ), only daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby and Hon.

Symmes was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill ( 1741 – 1776 ) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.

On January 11, 1776, Rush married Julia Stockton ( 1759 – 1848 ), daughter of Richard Stockton, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Annis Boudinot Stockton.

He was married on August 29, 1776 to Elizabeth Nicholas ( daughter of Robert C. Nicholas ), and had a total of six children, including Peyton Randolph, Governor of Virginia from 1811 to 1812.

In 1739 she married Anthony Ulrich ( 1714 – 1776 ), son of Ferdinand Albert, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: he was taken to Russia already in 1733, so that she could get to know him.

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William Hervey, RN ( 25 December 1699 – January 1776 ), married Elizabeth Ridge and had issue

:* Elizabeth Percy née Seymour ( 1716 – 1776 ), only daughter of the 1st Earl, married Sir Hugh Smithson

In late 1776 in London, Laurens married Martha Manning, the daughter of one of his father's London agents.

On April 8, 1776, he married Rebecca White of Salem.

At the age of 20, Rembrandt married 22-year-old Eleanor May Short ( 1776 – 1836 ) at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Philadelphia.

The sister died on the voyage but Susannah married Major John Smith of the Bengal Establishment in Madras on 24 August 1776.

** Daughter ( 24 June 1708-11 January 1776 ), personal name unknown, born to Lady Mao, married Sun Wufu ( 孫五福 ) in 1724.

After Henrietta's death in 1766 he married secondly the Honourable Louisa Cathcart, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart, in 1776.