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In 1764, John Brown joined his brothers Nicholas Brown and Moses Brown as well as William Ellery, the Baptist Reverend James Manning, the Baptist Reverend Isaac Backus, the Congregationalist Reverend and later Yale College president Ezra Stiles, former Chief Justice of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Stephen Hopkins and several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ).
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* In 1764 William Harrison ( the son of John Harrison ) sailed aboard the HMS Tartar, with the H-4 time piece.
Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).
* 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon ( b. 1764 )
* 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
John Abernethy ( 1764 – 1831 ).
John Abernethy FRS ( 3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831 ) was an English surgeon.
Corbin Washington ( 1764 – 1799 ), son of Col. John Augustine Washington ( 1736 – 1787 ) and Hannah Bushrod ( 1738 – 1801 ).
Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.
* November 23 – Sir John Barrow, English statesman ( b. 1764 )
* April 20 – John Abernethy ( surgeon ) ( b. 1764 )
* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone
The county is named for Captain John Edmonson ( 1764 – 1813 ), a veteran of the American Revolutionary War who was killed at the Battle of Frenchtown during the War of 1812.
Others were his ingenious Satire on False Perspective ( 1753 ); his satire on canvassing in his Election series ( 1755 – 1758 ; now in Sir John Soane's Museum ); his ridicule of the English passion for cockfighting in The Cockpit ( 1759 ); his attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism ( 1762 ); his political anti-war satire in The Times, plate I ( 1762 ); and his pessimistic view of all things in Tailpiece, or The Bathos ( 1764 ).
Nathaniel Sparhawk by John Singleton Copley, 1764
In 1764, John Reister purchased a quarter acre lot, which he named Church Hill, as a site for the community's first church, a small building constructed of logs.
First settled in 1764, the town was set off from Peterborough and incorporated in 1779, named Hancock in honor of John Hancock.
In 1764, Stiles played an influential role in the establishment of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ) by contributing substantially to the drafting of its charter and by serving with thirty-five others-including Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Samuel Ward, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, and the Reverend James Manning-as a founding fellow or trustee.
In 1764, John Frankenberger purchased and laid out eighty-five lots with streets and alleys and named it " Berlin ," his home in Germany.
The first documented visitor to the area now known as Clarksburg was John Simpson, a trapper, who in 1764 located his camp on the West Fork River opposite the mouth of Elk Creek at approximately ( 39. 28128 ,-80. 35145 )
In 1764 he was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court Palace, succeeding John Greening and residing at the Wilderness House.
His son, John Grundy, Jr., took over after the death of his father in 1748, and spent nearly £ 10, 000 on bank repairs between then and 1764.
James Manning Greer was a descendant of John Greer who arrived in Charleston aboard the ship The Falls in 1764.
The foundation stone of its octagonal Methodist chapel, the oldest still in continued use, was laid following the visit of John Wesley in 1764.
John Wesley laid the foundation stone of the unusual octagonal chapel which is situated off Northgate, and it was completed in 1764.
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS ( 19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848 ) was an English statesman.
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The Ezra Stiles copy of the Brown University Charter of 1764
Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.
The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children ( reports vary ).
Joseph Rogers was born August 21, 1764 near Cook's Town, Ireland, the son of James Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Brown.
Following the 1st Duke's death the Duchess concentrated most of her considerable energies on the completion of the palace itself, and the park remained relatively unchanged until the arrival of Capability Brown in 1764.
In 1764, the Baptists consulted with Ellery and the Congregationalist Reverend Ezra Stiles on writing a charter for the college that became Brown University.
For the institution that used this name from 1764 until 1804, see Brown University.
The Quebec Gazette newspaper was founded in Quebec City by William Brown on June 21, 1764.
* Nicholas Brown I ( 1729 – 1791 ), American signer of the 1764 charter of what became Brown University
Leading figures in the colony such as former royal governors Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward as well as John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, the Reverend James Manning, and the Reverend Ezra Stiles who had played an influential role in founding Brown University in Providence in 1764 as a sanctuary for religious and intellectual freedom were involved only twelve years later in the 1776 launch of the American Revolutionary War which delivered American independence from the British Empire.
In September 1764, during his time as a privateer and merchant, Hopkins took command of the slave ship Sally, owned by Nicholas Brown and Company.
The Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches sent Dr. James Manning to Rhode Island to found the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( later renamed Brown University ) in 1764.
* William Brown ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1764 – 1814 ), British Royal Navy admiral
Although his date of birth is traditionally given as 1740, evidence from the time of his first marriage to Elizabeth Brown in 1764 suggests that he was born in April or May 1741.
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, founded by William Brown ( c. 1737 – 1789 ) as the Quebec Gazette on 21 June 1764, claims to be the oldest newspaper in North America.
In 1764, Gano joined several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the former name for Brown University, originally a Baptist school ).
Prior Park was created by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen from about 1734 until his death in 1764, with advice from both Pope and Brown.
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