Washington was appointed by Governor Dinwiddie as one of the four district adjutants in February 1753, with the rank of major in the Virginia militia.

Governor Dinwiddie received orders from the British government to warn the French of British claims, and sent Major Washington in late 1753 to deliver a letter informing the French of those claims and asking them to leave.

* August 20 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland ( b. 1753 )

* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), Governor of New Jersey

The plan to occupy the strategic forks was formed by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie with the advice of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who Dinwiddie had sent on a mission to warn French commanders in late 1753, and who had made a military assessment of the site.

It was regranted to its inhabitants in 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it Keene after Sir Benjamin Keene, English minister to Spain and a West Indies trader.

The town was first granted in 1753 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Addison, after Joseph Addison, secretary of state for England.

It was regranted to 62 proprietors on July 2, 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth as Swanzey, most probably because some early settlers had a connection to Swansea in Wales.

First granted by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as Number 9 ( ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks ), it was regranted in 1753 as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, by Governor Benning Wentworth.

* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), Captain in Revolutionary War, New Jersey Attorney General, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Vice-Admiralty Court, president of the first Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Mayor from 1795 to 1800, Governor of New Jersey ( 1801 – 1802 and 1803 – 1812 ), a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 and U. S. Representative from 1817 to 1821.

* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), 4th Governor of New Jersey was born in Woodbridge Township.

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

Frazier settled his family on the location, and in 1753 Christopher Gist and General George Washington met with Fraser while delivering messages from Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to French commanders in the Pittsburgh region.

In December 1753, at age 21, Washington was asked by Governor Dinwiddie to carry a British ultimatum to the French Canadians on the Ohio frontier.

In 1753, Marquis Duquesne, the Governor of New France, sent another, larger expedition.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

* William Jones ( governor ) ( 1753 – 1822 ), Governor of Rhode Island, 1811 – 1817

* Jonas Galusha ( 1753 – 1834 ), Governor of Vermont for two terms in the early 19th century, was born in the city.

In 1753, it was incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth as Winchester, for Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London.

In 1753, the town was regranted as Charlestown by Governor Benning Wentworth, after Admiral Charles Knowles of the British navy, then governor of Jamaica.

Granted in 1753 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named Grenville after George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and brother-in-law of William Pitt.

Edmund Jennings Randolph ( August 10, 1753 September 12, 1813 ) was an American attorney, the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.

* Sir George Thomas, 1st Baronet ( died 1774 ), Governor of the Leeward Islands 1753 – 1766, see Thomas baronets

On 6 April 1750 he was appointed Governor of Guernsey and on 3 February 1753 he became colonel of the Royal Horse Guards.

Jonas Galusha ( February 11, 1753 – September 24, 1834 ) was the sixth and eighth Governor of Vermont for two terms in the early 19th century.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

Thus, in the broadest sense, the first electrified musical instrument was the Denis d ' or, dating from 1753, followed shortly by the Clavecin électrique by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in 1761.

* 1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet ( d. 1814 )

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* November 8 – Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchess of Maine, daughter in law of Louis XIV ( d. 1753 )

In the spring of 1753, Paul Marin de la Malgue was given command of a 2, 000-man force of Troupes de la Marine and Indians.

* Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon ( 1753 – 1821 ), French princess

Statue of James I at the Sabatini Gardens in Madrid ( Juan de León | J. León, 1753 ).

* Dumont de Montigny ( 1696-after 1753 ), French explorer and author

* Jacques de Liniers ( Santiago de Liniers y Remond ) ( 1753 – 1810 )

Just before this time, Rameau had made the acquaintance of powerful financier Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, who became his patron until 1753.

Fort de la Corne was built in 1753 by Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne just east of the Saskatchewan River Forks in what is today the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais ( comte de La Bourdonnais ) ( Saint-Malo, 11 February 1699 – Paris, 10 November 1753 ) was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.

* Pierre Crépin: Mahé de La Bourdonnais, gouverneur général des îles de France et de Bourbon ( 1699 – 1753 ) ....

* Jean de Collas ( 1678 – 1753 ), architect

A witty pamphlet entitled Le Petit Prophète de Boehmischbroda ( 1753 ), written by him in defence of Italian as against French opera, established his literary reputation.

* Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais ( 1699 – 1753 ), sailor and administrator

* February 26-Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard philosopher ( born 1753 )