A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1771 )

* The town of Martinsborough, North Carolina, itself named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin in 1771, is renamed " Greenesville " in honor of United States General Nathanael Greene by the North Carolina General Assembly ; the name " Greenesville " is later shortened to become Greenville.

It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

The town peaceably petitioned for separation from the town because of its relatively long distance from the rest of Hatfield, and was officially incorporated in 1771, named by Governor Thomas Hutchinson for Thomas Whately, a Member of Parliament whose letter to Hutchinson would later be involved in the controversy which brought on Hutchinson's dismissal.

But the pass through the White Mountains was otherwise unknown until 1771, when Timothy Nash discovered it hunting moose, and told Governor John Wentworth.

In 1771, Governor John Wentworth incorporated the town, naming it after Strongman's birthplace: Dublin, Ireland.

It was regranted by Governor John Wentworth in 1771 as Northumberland, the name derived from Northumberland in England.

In 1771, his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, gave it the name Fairfield, after Fairfield, Connecticut.

Granted by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1765 to John Pierce and George Jaffrey of Portsmouth, it was settled in 1771 by Dea.

Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty during a bloody period of the French and Indian War.

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 ).

In 1771 he was appointed to be Governor of Calcutta, the most important of the Presidencies.

In 1771, the Burmese Governor of that city moved his army southwards and laid siege to Phichai, but he was driven out.

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.

Trained in law at an early age by Andrew Hamilton, Benjamin Chew inherited his mentor's clients, the descendants of William Penn, including Thomas Penn ( 1702 – 1775 ) and his brother Richard Penn, Sr. ( 1706 – 1771 ), and their sons Governor John Penn ( 1729 – 1795 ), Richard Penn, Jr. ( 1734 – 1811 ), and John Penn ( 1760 – 1834 ).

In 1771, Chew purchased the former house of his client, Governor John Penn, on South Third Street ; Penn had returned to England to settle his father ’ s ( Richard Penn, Sr .) estate.

The latest Indians, the Seneca named Wellsville " Gistaguat " according to a map produced in 1771 by Guy Johnson, as the official map of New York State at the time, for then Governor William Tryon.

Hooper advised that Governor Tryon use as much force as was necessary to stamp out the rebels, and even accompanied the troops at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.

Jacob Blount, a justice of the peace, furnished Governor William Tryon's army with supplies as it marched to defeat the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.

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.

In 1771 Governor Tryon called out 5 militiamen of Tryon County to help put down the Regulator movement, a protest against corrupt county officials and excessive taxes, centered in counties to the northeast of Tryon. Although the colony was officially at peace with the Indians from 1763 to 1776, the Tryon County frontier was the target of occasional raids, usually by Cherokee, but sometimes by Shawnee and other faraway tribes.

He was later promoted to colonel of artillery during Governor William Tryon's expeditions against the Regulators in April – July 1768 and April – May 1771.

A small road called the Hornby Road, named after the then Governor of Bombay ( Mumbai ) between 1771 AD and 1784 AD, also existed at the old Fort area.

He was made a Lord of the Admiralty under the North administration, holding office until he was made Governor of Greenwich Hospital, by way of retirement, in January 1771.

The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade.

* 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician ( d. 1771 )

* November 10 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer ( d. 1771 )

* September 30 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman ( d. 1771 )

Dr. John Lingard ( 5 February 1771 – 17 July 1851 ) was an English historian, the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819.

Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.

Tacitus describes her as the " wife of the Plautius who returned from Britain with an ovation ", which led John Lingard ( 1771 – 1851 ) to conclude, in his History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, that she was British ; however, this conclusion is a misinterpretation of what Tacitus wrote.

In 1771 Henry and his wife Sarah moved into their Scotchtown plantation in Hanover County, along with their children: Martha (" Patsy "), Anne, Elizabeth (" Betsy "), John, William, and Edmund (" Neddy ").

* John Watson ( college president ) ( 1771 – 1802 ), first president of Jefferson College

* John Allen ( soldier ) ( 1771 – 1813 ), born in Rockbridge County, a Kentucky political figure and colonel of militia, killed in the War of 1812

However, in 1962, an Inquirer-commissioned historian traced The Inquirer to John Dunlap's The Pennsylvania Packet, which was founded on October 28, 1771.

It was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

His daughter Mary Anne married first John Blachford ( 1771 ‐ 1832 ), and secondly Thomas, 7th Earl of Carnwath, dying in 1853.

* 1756 – 1771: John Ponsonby

Designed by the architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built from 1759 to 1771 for wealthy trader Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.

The asked John Smeaton to suggest improvements in 1771, but the subsequent attempt to authorise such improvements was disputed in Parliament on the basis that the present navigation was totally inadequate.

Dr John Allen ( 1771 – 1843 ) of Holland House was a most learned and influential man, but neglected the education of the Poor Scholars.

* John Gill ( 1697 – 1771 ), author of the Exposition of the Bible and the Body of Divinity