With the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

With the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

In his journal and letters, John Wesley, preacher and founder of Methodism, tells of a confrontation with Nash in Bath in 1739.

He was the fifth son of John Walmesley of Westwood House, Wigan, Lancashire ; was educated at the English Benedictine College of St. Gregory at Douai ( now Downside School, near Bath ); and made his profession as a Benedictine monk at the English Monastery of St. Edmund, Paris, in 1739.

As early as 1739 he began acquiring land of his own to the south and west of Beverley's Manor in what is today Rockingham and Bath counties.

* George Mathews, ( 1739 – 1812 ), born in Augusta County, later United States Congressman and Governor of Georgia.

With the abolition of Albemarle County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

* 1739 Bertie Precinct becomes Bertie County

With the abolition of Albemarle County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became separate counties.

On March 15, 1739, Morris County ( which at the time included what would later become Sussex County and Warren County ) was separated from Hunterdon County.

Morris County, created in 1739, was divided into three townships.

The area covered by the present-day township was set off to Morris County upon that county's creation in 1739, and became part of the newly formed Sussex County in 1753.

On March 15, 1739, it became part of the newly formed Morris County.

From 1736 to 1739, the area was under the authority of Hempfield Township in Lancaster County east of the Susquehanna.

In 1739, the Provincial Assembly passed a special act to empower Lancaster County to establish townships west of the river.

Robert Stewart was born in Henry Street, Dublin, Ireland, in 1769 the son of Robert Stewart ( 1739 – 1821 ) of Newtownards and Comber in County Down, with properties in Counties Donegal and Londonderry.

The indictments stated that the alleged offences had occurred at Welton on 1 March 1739, and described Turpin as " John Palmer alias Pawmer alias Richard Turpin ... late of the castle of York in the County of York labourer ".

Michael's daughter Elizabeth Cuffe married Thomas Pakenham, of Pakenham Hall, just outside Castlepollard, County Westmeath, in 1739.

** Governor George Clinton 1739 – 1812-Clerk Ulster County 1759, NY Assembly 1760, Continental Congress 1775, Brigadier General Continental Army 1776, Governor & Lt.

It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons.

However, attempts were made in 1739, 1790 and 1810 to take the rights and privileges from Greenlaw and make Duns County Town once more.

George was born to John and Ann ( Archer ) Mathews on August 30, 1739 in Augusta County, Virginia.

It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

In 1717, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim.

The Austrians, in their turn, rapidly expanded their empire: in 1718 an important part of Wallachia, called Oltenia, was incorporated to the Austrian monarchy and was only returned in 1739.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

Owing to public pressure, the British government was pushed towards declaring war with Spain in 1739.

Year 1739 ( MDCCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

From 1739 until the 1900s, Kronborg was used as a prison.

The Academy of Science was founded in 1739 and the Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities in 1753.

The creation of the residence was considered after the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ), but construction did not commence until 1739.

* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ( 1739 – 1799 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1770 to 1795.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear was a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

The actual declaration of war against Spain was not proclaimed until Saturday 23 October 1739 ( Old Style ).

One of the first actions was the British capture, on 22 November 1739, of Porto Bello, a silver-exporting town on the coast of Panama in an attempt to damage Spain's finances and weaken its naval capabilities.

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

When war had broken out in 1739 it was expected in both Britain and Spain that France would join the war on the Spanish side.

War on Spain was declared by Great Britain on 23 October 1739, which has become known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

A greatly improved edition was published by Richard Bentley in 1739.