Telford ’ s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as an engineer: he had published poetry between 1779 and 1784, and an account of a tour of Scotland with Southey.

The register was continued by Pidansat de Mairobert ( 1707 – 1779 ), who may have had a greater hand in it from the start, and by others, until it reached 36 volumes ( covering the years 1774-1779 ).

Starkey may have been settled around 1798, but a scouting party of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, found an occupied cabin north of Glenora.

Among the other works of Griesbach ( which are comparatively unimportant ) may be mentioned his university thesis De codicibus quatuor evangelislarum Origenianis ( Halle, 1771 ) and a work upon systematic theology ( Anleitung zur Kenntniss der populären Dogmatik, Jena, 1779 ).

The first recorded outbreak of this disease may have been in 1779.

However, the report ( from Lt-Col. Johnson to Sir Henry Clinton on July 24, 1779 ) also lists 58 missing separate from killed, wounded, and captured, many of whom may have drowned in the Hudson.

Zackquill may have been living near his brother David at Pleasantville until 1779 or 1780.

Nevertheless, as Madame du Deffand told Walpole, Saint-Lambert is froid, fade et faux and the same may be said of Jean-Antoine Roucher ( 1745 – 1794 ) who wrote Les Mois in 1779, a descriptive poem famous in its day.

The favoured ( but specious ) present account in contemporary sources of reference is that he was possibly a son of John Abraham or Abrahams, who was possibly an operative at the Drury Lane Theatre who died in 1779 and his wife, who may have been Esther, who may have been a sister of the hazzan at the Great Synagogue of London, Myer Lyon.

During the American Revolutionary War, he may have taken part in the siege of Boonesborough in 1778, which was led by Chief Blackfish, as well as the subsequent defense of the Shawnee village of Chillicothe in 1779.

In 1779, he wrote what may be the first book published by a deaf person, in which he advocated for the use of sign language in deaf education.

She accompanied him in January 1779 from Munich to Salzburg and stayed there for about two-and-a-half months, despite the disapproval of Mozart's father Leopold .. She may have hoped for marriage to Wolfgang.

Bergman's use of the blowpipe outstripped all of his predecessors, and he widened its application from mineralogy to inorganic chemistry, giving rise to what may be regarded as a masterpiece of philosophical investigation, De Tubo Ferruminatorio, published in Vienna in 1779 ( and translated into English in 1788 ).

*, a cutter purchased 1779 ; went missing in the North Sea June 1797, presumed to have foundered.

The birth of a daughter meant that pressure to have a male heir continued, and Marie Antoinette wrote about her worrisome health, which might have contributed to a miscarriage in July 1779.

In 1779 Ludd is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage.

Rockingham wrote to Augustus Keppel on 3 November 1779, saying that he believed the war against American could not be won, that the government was corrupt but not unpopular, and that the longer this continued the greater the danger to the liberties and the constitution of Britain: " Perhaps a total change of men and measures, & system in the Government: of this country might have effect on the councils of some foreign countries ... who might think that it was no longer a Court system to combat, but that the whole nation wd ; united & make the utmost efforts ".

The couple would have thirteen children: Sarah, Jesse, Martha, Nathaniel, John, Susanna, Mary, Abagail, Edward, Scudder, an infant daughter, Daniel, and Deborah, of whom only Daniel and Deborah were still minor children at John Hart's death in 1779.

Several German textbooks published about 1800 reported that the mistake was first identified by Christlieb Benedikt Funk in 1779, but the construction itself appears to have received little notice until the middle of the twentieth century when tuning theorist J. Murray Barbour presented it as a good method for approximating equal temperament and similar exponentials of small roots, and generalized its underlying mathematical principles.

As Cowley later wrote in her preface to the printed edition of Albina, hers and More ’ s plays do indeed have “ wonderful resemblances .” Fatal Falsehood ’ s opening on 6 May 1779, was followed by charges ( perhaps written by Thomas Cowley ) in the press that More stole her ideas from Cowley.

Despite the frequent presence of Saint George, the Dragon rarely appears in these plays, though it is often mentioned ; a dragon seems to have appeared in the Revesby Ploughboys ' Play in 1779, along with a " wild worm " ( possibly mechanical ), but it had no words to say.

The distillery, which lies on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, is one of the oldest in Scotland and is said to have been established in 1779.

They married in April 1779, and would later have two children.

But since these were never made, and no more is heard of the 75-year-old Kay, it is believed that he must have died later in 1779.

Most of its eruptions are strombolian, affecting only the summit areas, but larger plinian eruptions have occurred in 1471 – 1476, 1779 – 1782 and 1914.

" An early acquaintance with Lawrence Sterne resulted in Combe's anonymous Letters supposed to have been written by Yorick and Eliza ( 1779 ).

In 1779, George Washington and John Jay, the president of the Continental Congress and a close associate of the Commander in Chief's on intelligence matters, disagreed about the effect disclosure of some intelligence would have on sources and methods.

For example, in 1779 he is said to have visited the Venetian-ruled town of Preveza and founded there a Greek school, which would be the only school of the city during the 18th century-an act which the Venetian authorities might have considered as undermining their rule.

Marie Victoire Adelaide ( born 1779 ) and Charlotte Maximilienne Amélie ( born 1780 ) were thought to have been placed in the care of Thomas Coutts, the London banker, and a distant relative of the Walkinshaws.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).

He served as a Delegate from September 26, 1776 – June 1, 1779, as the war continued.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

He served in the Virginia House of Delegates ( 1779 – 81, 1783 – 85, 1796 – 1800 ) and in the United States Senate ( 1792 – 94, 1803, 1822 – 24 ).

He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death.

* Samuel Fowler ( 1779 – 1844 ), who served in the House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837.

Several served in the Revolutionary War, which brought the 1779 construction of Continental Road from Eagle Valley through the present-day village of Tuxedo Park to what is now Route 17 near Warwick Brook Road.

In 1779 he served in the State constitutional convention.

He served as a captain of artillery in the South Carolina militia, and fought at the Battle of Beaufort in 1779.

William Warburton ( 24 December 1698 – 7 June 1779 ) was an English critic and churchman, and served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death.

He served in the Virginia House of Delegates ( 1779 – 81, 1783 – 85, 1796 – 1800 ) and in the United States Senate ( 1792 – 94, 1803, 1822 – 24 ).

Fitzgerald joined the British Army in 1779, he served on the staff of Lord Rawdon in the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.

Muhlenberg was a member of the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780, and served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1780 to 1783.

Andrew Pickens, Jr. ( December 13, 1779 – July 1, 1838 ) was an American military and political leader who served as the 46th Governor of South Carolina from 1816 until 1818.

The town served as the southern terminus of the Bayley Hazen Military Road, begun by Bayley in 1760 and then continued until 1779 by Colonel Moses Hazen.

Hewes served until 1779.

In 1779 he finally served his last few months as a congressman and on November 10, 1779, Joseph Hewes died just before his fiftieth birthday.

He served in the Virginia State Senate from 1778 to 1782, and was a delegate to the first Continental Congress held in Philadelphia, serving until 1779.

From 1779 to 1780, Lewis served as the Chairman of the Continental Board of Admiralty.

Randolph was selected as one of eleven delegates to represent Virginia at the Continental Congress in 1779, and served as a delegate through 1782.