He graduated from the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania ) in 1760, and joined the mercantile business of William Biddle.

He joined the British Army at the age of 14, becoming a major in 1760.

Upon completing a bachelor's degree at Penn in 1760, Williamson joined his alma mater's faculty as a professor of mathematics.

He joined the military in 1760 during the Seven Years ' War.

In 1760 Murray returned to England and joined George Whitefield's congregation ; but embracing, somewhat later, the Universalistic teachings of Welsh minister James Relly he was excommunicated.

1760 he joined the Dutch marine as a ship's doctor.

In 1760 he joined the Kapelle of Duke Clemens and upon the Duke's death in 1770 was taken into the elector's Hofkapelle.

After a grand European tour he 1755 joined the Danish state service, first as a courtier and then from 1760 as a state official both in foreign political and financial matters.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1760, and visited Newfoundland with Governor Thomas Graves the next year while serving aboard.

Smith graduated from Princeton in 1760 and joined his father in business.

John Green, and the younger Green went on to become an assistant teacher there, continuing his studies in astronomy until he joined the staff of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1760.

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

From 1760 to 1765 he worked in Breslau ( now Wrocław ) as secretary to General Tauentzien.

In September 1760, Governor Vaudreuil negotiated a surrender with General Amherst.

A member of the prominent Breckinridge family of Kentucky, John C. Breckinridge was the grandson of John Breckinridge ( 1760 – 1806 ), who served as a Senator and Attorney General.

In about 1760, the house and estate were bought by Charles Pratt, the Attorney General, and later Lord Chancellor.

* Charles Pratt ( 1714 – 1794 ), Baron Camden from 1765 and 1st Earl Camden from 1786, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor, lived at Camden Place from c. 1760.

The county is named for John Breckinridge ( 1760 – 1806 ), a former Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United States Attorney General.

It is named after General Andrew Pickens, a Revolutionary War hero who fought the Cherokee in 1760 and 1782.

Chartered in 1760 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named for General Lord Amherst, who commanded British forces in North America during the French and Indian War.

Tarrburg, as the town was called on maps of 1770-75, was chartered November 30, 1760 as Tarborough by the General Assembly.

She was the paternal granddaughter of Nathaneal Bland ( d. 1760 ), Vicar General of Ardfert and Agadhoe, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Dublin, Ireland, and his wife Lucy ( née Heaton ).

The last French governor-general of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered to British Major General Jeffrey Amherst on September 8, 1760.

John Breckinridge ( December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806 ) was a United States Senator and Attorney General.

* The lower house of the General Assembly of North Carolina was also known as the House of Commons between 1760 and 1868.

In 1759 he was made brigade major to Brigadier General John Stanwix, a position he continued when General Robert Monckton took over Stanwix's command in 1760.

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

The baron's eldest son was John, the 2nd baron ( 1727 – 1774 ), whose son William Monson ( 1760 – 1807 ) served in the Mahratta War under General Lake.

British General James Murray had also lost a battle outside the city in 1760 ; Montgomery judged that Carleton was unlikely to repeat their mistakes.

Notable burials, in and around the church, include: Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis ( d. 1585 ), General James Wolfe ( d. 1759 ), English-born explorer of Canada Henry Kelsey ( d. 1724 ), and actress Lavinia Fenton ( 1760 ).

In 1758 he was employed as secretary to General Bligh in the expedition against Cherbourg ; and in the same capacity he accompanied the Earl of Kinnoull on his special embassy to the court of Portugal in 1760.

In 1760, General Jeffrey Amherst put him at the head of a division during the attack and capture of Montreal.

In 1760, General Pasquale Paoli ordered the necklace to be removed from the head and the blindfold raised.

Most fighting in the North American theater of the war, generally called the French and Indian War in the United States, came to an end after British General Jeffrey Amherst captured the last important French settlement, Montréal, in 1760.

* 1760 – Pierre de Rigaud, Governor of New France, capitulates ( September 8 ) to Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst.

Ville-Marie remained French settlement until 1760, when Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal surrendered it to the British army under Jeffrey Amherst.

He was forced to surrender Montreal on September 8, 1760 to Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst.

In 1760, General Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst attacked and seized Montreal, winning Canada for the British.

It was used again in 1759 as a departure point for a successful expedition against Fort Niagara, and in 1760 by Jeffrey Amherst's army as it moved toward Montreal.

Although Amherst was incensed at Gage's failure, and there was no immediate censure from either Amherst or the war ministry, Gage's troops were in the rear of Amherst's army in the 1760 expedition that resulted in Montreal's surrender.

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.