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In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).
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1767 and William
* William Henry Coombes ( 1767 — 1850 ), Catholic theologian, was a priest in Shepton Mallet from 1810 to 1849, following which he retired to the nearby Downside Abbey.
On 4 October 1767 in Berlin, Prince William married Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, the daughter of Augustus William of Prussia, niece of Frederick the Great and a cousin of George III.
First granted in 1767 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven Years War.
Barrackville was founded in 1767 by William " Indian Billy " Ice and named in honor of an early settler, John Barrack.
In 1767 – 68 he wintered on the Michipicoten River and entered into a partnership with Sir William Johnson, the Duke of Gloucester and others, forming a company to mine silver found in copper ore on the shores of Lake Superior.
* William Hersey Otis Haliburton ( 1767 – 1829 ), lawyer, judge, and political figure in Nova Scotia
Upon Isaak's death in 1767 Caroline was left working in the family kitchen, and when an invitation to join William arrived she moved to join him in 1772.
Anne bore him three children: Anne ( 1767 ), Sarah ( 1769 ), and William Bowyer ( born 1775 and died a year later ).
Pulteney's vast fortune came in 1767 to Frances, wife of William Johnstone and daughter and co-heiress of his cousin, Daniel Pulteney, a bitter antagonist of Walpole in parliament, and had taken the name of Pulteney.
1767: Philip William Otterbein and Martin Boehm started Methodist evangelism among German speaking immigrants to form the United Brethren in Christ.
* William Yates, MD, born 1767, after instruction and supply from Dr. Jenner in England, arrived in Philadelphia 1799, began smallpox vaccination program, and has a state historical marker on route 23 east of the Village of Morris crediting him for pioneering this work in the USA.
Arthur Wakefield was born in Essex near London, a son of Edward Wakefield ( 1774-1854 ) and Susanna Crash ( 1767 – 1816 ); his other brothers were William Hayward Wakefield and Felix Wakefield.
Francis Russell, eldest son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock ( died 1767 ), by his wife, Elizabeth ( died 1768 ), daughter of William Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, was baptized on 23 July 1765.
In 1767 More gave up her share in the school after becoming engaged to William Turner of Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset.
1767 and Governor
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* February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )
Settlement commenced in 1767, the year Barnstead was incorporated as a town by Governor John Wentworth.
The town was granted as Stonington in 1761 to John Hogg and others by Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled in 1767 by Thomas Burnside and Daniel Spaulding.
The original grants for this area, issued by the Royal Governor of New York in 1767 and 1772, were for two towns.
In 1767 he became the colonel of his county's militia and Governor John Wentworth appointed him justice of the peace.
With his soldiers he moved to Chantaburi, and being rebuffed by the Governor of the town for his friendly overtures, he made a surprise night attack on it and captured it on June 15, 1767, only two months of after the sack of Ayutthaya.
Needless to say, Hsinbyushin of Burma never abandoned his plan to force Siam to its knees, and as soon as he had been informed of the foundation of Thonburi as King Taksin's capital, he commanded the Governor of Tavoy to subjugate him in 1767.
Amid increased furor after the passage of the 1767 Townshend Acts, Governor Bernard requested and received military troops to protect crown officials.
His prominence in these debates prompted the Royal Governor Francis Bernard to revoke his military commission in 1767.
For failure to comply with the Quartering Act, Parliament suspended the Province of New York's Governor and legislature in 1767 and 1769, but never carried it out, since the Assembly soon agreed to contribute money toward the quartering of troops ; the New York Assembly allocated funds for the quartering of British troops in 1771.
The upper Green on Elm is bordered by " Quality Row ", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven: the federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern ( now the Yale Elihu Senior Society ), the federal Eli W. Blake House ( now the Graduate Club ), the federal John Pierpont house ( now the Yale University Visitor Center ) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis ( future home of Dwight Hall, the student community service organization at Yale ).
In 1767, the Pennsylvania Assembly, with Governor Thomas Penn's assent, had authorized a Supreme Court justice ( always a lawyer ) to sit with local justices of the peace ( judges of county courts, but laymen ) in a system of Nisi Prius courts.
In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769.
Governor Michael Franklin reported that by January 1, 1767, there were eleven American already living on the Peninsula.
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