He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf ( 1766 – 1847 ) on October 26, 1789, New Haven, Connecticut.

* 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

* William Irving ( New York ), ( 1766 – 1821 ), U. S. Congressman from New York

Van Slyke was born on the Mohawk River in Schenectady County, New York, on April 5, 1766.

In 1762, Governor Benning Wentworth incorporated the town as " Ipswich ", and then in 1766 as " New Ipswich ".

Book frontispiece | Frontispiece, The Annals or History of Yale College in New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, by Yale President Thomas Clap, 1766.

The first Spanish governor of Louisiana, Antonio de Ulloa, arrived in New Orleans in March 1766, and in early 1767 he dispatched his subordinate, Francisco Riu, to replace St. Ange as commander of a soon-to-be-built fort at the mouth of the Missouri River.

Pontiac met with Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on July 25, 1766, at Oswego, New York, and formally ended hostilities.

He arrived on 5 March 1766 in New Orleans to serve as the first Spanish governor of West Louisiana.

The best known pre-20th century new town in the UK was undoubtedly the Edinburgh New Town, built in accordance with a 1766 master plan by James Craig, and ( along with Bath and Dublin ) the archetype of the elegant Georgian style of British architecture.

* 1766 – Liberty Pole erected in New York City commons in celebration of the Stamp Act repeal ( May 21 ).

Remsen was named for Henry Remsen II, the original proprietor of the township and the inheritor of the Remsenburgh patent, which embraced some in Oneida and Herkimer counties and was granted in 1766 ( later regranted by the Legislature in 1787 ) to Remsen and four other New York merchants.

At the urging of Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, whom he met in Paisley, Witherspoon finally accepted another invitation ( he had earlier turned one down in 1766 ) to become President and head professor of the small Presbyterian College of New Jersey in Princeton.

Some visits to Bath, however, where from 1770 until his death in 1805, he made No. 4 Royal Crescent his permanent home, ( albeit the plaque recording this is actually displayed outside No. 5 ) where in 1766 he penned his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family ..., a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, about the adventures of the " Blunderhead " family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

This American classis secured a charter in 1766 for Queens College ( now Rutgers University ) in New Jersey.

* Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA ( 1766 – 1825 )

When 1, 500 British troops arrived at New York City in 1766 the New York Provincial Assembly refused to comply with the Quartering Act and did not supply billeting for the troops.

In August 1766 he was commissioned as Governor and vice admiral of New Hampshire, and surveyor general of the woods in North America.

Benning Wentworth ( 24 July 1696 – 14 October 1770 ) was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.

* James Wilson I ( New Hampshire ) ( 1766 – 1839 ), US Representative from New Hampshire

Stephen Mack was born June 15, 1766 in Marlow, New Hampshire to Solomon Mack and Lydia Gates Mack.

The Sussex v Hampshire match in June 1766 is the earliest reference to Hampshire as an individual county team.

The law was not strictly enforced until John Wentworth was appointed governor of the New Hampshire colony in 1766.

The strength of the Hambledon / Hampshire team during Nyren's captaincy can be seen in its being rated the ( unofficial ) Champion County in 10 seasons: 1766 – 1771 inclusive, 1776 – 1777 inclusive, 1779 and 1783.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon.

The community was first chartered in 1766 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Burton for General Jonathan Burton of Wilton.

Granted in 1766 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, this town was named in honor of his close friend, British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth.

It was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth on November 1, 1766 to John Page and 60 others.

Besides King Taksin, who had organized his force in the south-eastern provinces, Prince Teppipit, King Boromakot's son, who had been unsuccessful in a diversionary action against the Burmese in 1766, had set himself up as the ruler of Phimai holding sway over the eastern provinces including Nakhon Ratchasima or Khorat, while the Governor of Phitsanulok, whose first name was Ruang ( Thai: เร ื อง ), had proclaimed himself independent, with the territory under his control extending to the province of Nakhon Sawan.

On 7 April 1766, Carleton was named acting Lieutenant Governor and Administrator of Quebec with James Murray officially in charge.

It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.

He served as deputy-governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1766 – 1769, and, on the death of Governor William Pitkin, became Governor of Connecticut in 1769, serving in that capacity until 1784.

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

Proclamation for a General Thanksgiving, issued by Governor Bernard, November 1766

* John Drayton ( 1766 – 1822 ), Governor of South Carolina

James Turner ( December 20, 1766 – January 15, 1824 ) was the 12th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805.

Governor James Wright wrote in 1766 that Georgia had

* Robert Williams ( governor ) ( 1766 – 1836 ), Governor of the Mississippi Territory

* Governor Pedro Antonio de Cevallos ( or Ceballos ) ( 1756 – 1766 ).

* Governor Francisco de Paula Bucarelli y Ursúa ( 1766 – 1770 ).

* Henry Smith ( Rhode Island ) ( 1766 – 1818 ), Governor of Rhode Island

On 10 November 1766, Royal Governor William Franklin chartered Queen's College.

He was Governor of Waterford from 1766 and custos rotulorum of that county from 1769 to 1800, during which time he was made a Knight of St Patrick, created Baron Tyrone in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1786 and elevated as a Marquess of Waterford in 1789.