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1780 and long-time
In 1780, on the death of his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Josiah turned to his friend for help in running the business.

1780 and business
Henry, his second son, born in 1780, continued the family tradition, and raised his son of the same name into the business.
However, by 1780 the population of Chocksett was so numerous as to constitute a majority, and so the voters of the area voted out the existing Lancaster town officers and began to conduct town business and meetings in Chocksett.
By 1780 the residents of the north fields found it increasingly difficult to travel to the center of Canterbury to attend to town business.
In 1780 the University of Münster ( today called " Westphalian Wilhelms-University ", WWU ) was established, now a major European centre for excellence in education and research with large faculties in the arts, humanities, theology, sciences, business and law.
In March 1780, Lafayette gave power of attorney to business manager Jacques-Philippe Grattepain-Morizot and Adrienne, and left France, departing for America aboard the Hermione, from Rochefort.
Others were Michael Sadler ( 1780 – 1835 ), a Wesleyan Methodist, who had a business importing Irish linen ; Richard Oastler ( 1789 – 1861 ), a land agent from a Wesleyan background ; Edwin Chadwick ( 1800 – 1890 ) who had been Bentham's secretary and Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1758 ).
After acting as assistant in pharmacies at Quedlinburg, Hanover, Berlin and Danzig successively he came to Berlin on the death of Valentin Rose the Elder in 1771 as manager of his business, and in 1780 he started an establishment on his own account in the same city, where from 1782 he was pharmaceutical assessor of the Ober-Collegium Medicum.
Initially almost unemployed due to the lack of education and contacts which a university education would have provided, his business increased thanks to his friendships with John Dunning, who, overwhelmed with cases, allowed Kenyon to work many, and Lord Thurlow who secured for him the Chief Justiceship of Chester in 1780.
Joseph Ellicott ( 1732 – 1780 ) was one of three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who purchased land on the Patapsco River and set up a new milling business there.
The former, introduced by Governor-General Jose Basco in 1780, was composed of leading men in business, industry and profession, the society was tasked to explore and exploit the natural resources of the archipelago.
Sir Benjamin died in March 1780 and, without a son to take on the business, it passed to his grandsons.
The money he made in a business he carried on in Paris for dealing in chemical products enabled him to retire in 1780 in order to devote himself to applied chemistry, but, ruined in the Revolution, he was obliged to return to a commercial career.

1780 and partner
In 1780, Hyde became a junior partner in his uncle's company.
* November 1-John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company ( b. 1780 ).
In 1789, the brewery was taken over by Sampson Hanbury ( Hanbury had been a partner since 1780 ; the Truman family became ' sleeping partners ').

1780 and Thomas
Between 1780 and 1783 Allen participated, along with his brother Ira, Vermont Governor Thomas Chittenden, and others, in negotiations with Frederick Haldimand, the governor of Quebec, that were ostensibly about prisoner exchanges, but were really about establishing Vermont as a new British province and gaining military protection for its residents.
After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress.
He left the war and, between 1780 and 1783, Monroe studied law as a legal apprentice under Thomas Jefferson.
* 1780Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist ( d. 1847 )
* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.
* 1754 – 1780 Hugh Thomas
The Reverend Mr. Thomas Dilworth ( died 1780 ) was an English cleric and author of a widely-used schoolbook, both in Great Britain and America, A New Guide to the English Tongue.
In 1780, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson gave the militia enrollment of what was then the vast Monongalia County at 1, 000 troops.
President Abraham Lincoln's half third cousin, Thomas Lincoln ( 1780 – 1844 ), lived in the Meshack Creek area of present day Monroe County and served two terms as constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and 1804.
* Thomas Lee ( 1780 – 1856 ), represented New Jersey at large in the United States House of Representatives from 1833-1837.
Three years later, William Card's grandsons ( Jonathan Card's two young sons ), Thomas ( 1762 – 1850 ) and Jonathan ( 1764 – 1836 ), would serve in Colonel Herrick's Vermont regiment on the " Yankee " or Patriot lines during 1780 / 1.
Among the rhyming weavers were James Campbell ( 1758 – 1818 ), James Orr ( 1770 – 1816 ), Thomas Beggs ( 1749 – 1847 ), David Herbison ( 1800 – 1880 ), Hugh Porter ( 1780 – 1839 ) and Andrew McKenzie ( 1780 – 1839 ).
Thomas Holcroft's daughter, Fanny Holcroft ( 1780 – 1844 ), wrote the noted Romantic anti-slavery poem, " The Negro " ( 1797 ), as well as novels such as Fortitude and Frailty ( 1817 ) and The Wife and the Lover ( 1813 – 14 ).
Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England ( 2nd ed., 1780 ) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus ; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World ( 1784 ).
* Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington ( 1780 – 1858 ), Scottish / English politician ; Conservative MP ( 1802 – 1812 and 1814 – 1827 )
Capriani made some engravings, including " The Death of Cleopatra ," after Benvenuto Cellini ; " The Descent of the Holy Ghost ," after Gabbiani ; and portraits for Thomas Hollis's memoirs, 1780.
His early memorial work included monuments for Thomas Chatterton in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol ( 1780 ), Mrs Morley in Gloucester Cathedral ( 1784 ), and the Rev.
Thomas Hutchinson ( 9 September 17113 June 1780 ) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution.
* Thomas Brown ( officer of arms ) ( 1708 – 1780 ), Garter Principal King of Arms
Ann Emily married the Honorable Ross Cuthbert ; Richard Rush ( 1780 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Catherine Elizabeth Murray ; Mary married Major Thomas Manners ; James became a medical doctor and married Eugenia Frances Heister and Elizabeth Upshur Dennis ; Benjamin did not marry, moved to New Orleans, LA ; Julia ( 1792 – 1860 ) married Henry Jonathon Williams Esquire ; Samuel ( 1795 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Nancy Anne Wilmer ; William became a doctor and married Elizabeth Fox Roberts.
* Lady Lucy Rachel Stanhope ( 1780 – 1814 ) who eloped with Thomas Taylor of Sevenoaks, the family apothecary, and her father refused to be reconciled to her ; but Pitt made her husband Controller-General of Customs and his son was one of the Earl of Chatham's executors.
Thomas Townshend b. 2 Jun 1701, d. 21 May 1780

1780 and died
* George Montagu ( died 1780 ), British politician
Their religious fervor died down over the winter, but when they heard of Ann Lee's preaching in May 1780, many of those New Lights traveled to Niskayuna, some forty miles away, to meet her.
She died on 29 November 1780, in Vienna, at the age of 63, and was mourned throughout Europe.
His father had died in 1780, and he now had to provide for his wife and two children, as well as for his mother, brothers and sisters.
In 1780, Soufflot died and was replaced by his student, Jean-Baptiste Rondelet.
It was named for William Woodford, an American Revolutionary War general from Virginia who died while a prisoner of war in 1780.
The first settlers to claim land in the Hooversville area were George Lohr ( 1780 ), Michael Kocher, and Casper Ripple ( warrant 1794 ), who died in 1828.
Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.
Daggett died in 1780.
Henry ’ s father died in 1780.
* Rebecca Clive ( bapt 10 October 1760 Moreton Say, married Lt-Gen John Robinson, MP ( d. 1798 ) in 1780 and died December 1795 ).
He spent his later years in retirement at Flux, a small property which he had purchased near Beaugency, and died there on 3 August 1780.
* Julia Henry ( b. 1780 ), died unmarried.
Coat of arms of Charles Alexander of Lorraine as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Although Maria Anna died later that year, Charles himself continued as governor until his own death in 1780.
After his father died of pneumonia, he moved with his mother and stepfather Captain John Marks to Georgia in May 1780.
By 3 February 1780 he was too weak to write, and after " some Days almost totally insensible ", he died on 14 February.
* April 13-Jonathan Carver, explorer and writer ( died 1780 )
** George Alexander Stevens, dramatist and poet ( died 1780 )
* January 1-Kristijonas Donelaitis, poet ( died 1780 )
* September 30-Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer ( died 1780 )
* September 29-Samuel Musgrave, classical scholar and pamphleteer ( died 1780 )
* December 31-Claude Joseph Dorat, " Le Chevalier Dorat " ( died 1780 )
** İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Sufi philosopher ( died 1780 )

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