* 1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.

* 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

The County is named after John Paulding ( October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818 ), who was famous for the capture of the British spy Major John André in 1780 during the American Revolution.

In 1780, Van Wart and fellow militiamen John Paulding and David Williams captured the British spy Major John André, a crucial informant to Benedict Arnold.

* 1780: The Fidelity Medallion was a small medal worn on a chain around the neck, similar to a religious medal, that was awarded only to three militiamen from New York state, for the capture of a British officer and spy connected directly to General Benedict Arnold ( American and British general-1780 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 -- 1783 ).

John André ( 2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780 ) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy during the American War of Independence.

André appealed to George Washington to be executed by firing squad, but by the rules of war he was hanged as a spy at Tappan on 2 October 1780.

The grave is marked by a large marble monument with the epitaph: " FIDELITY-On the morning of the 23rd of September 1780, accompanied by two young farmers of the county of West Chester, he intercepted the British spy, André.

André is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798 by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of Benedict Arnold.

* 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

On September 23, 1780, Major John André stopped here on his way to New York to ask directions after meeting with Benedict Arnold.

John Stark sat as a judge in the court martial that in September 1780 found British Major John André guilty of spying and in helping in the conspiracy of Benedict Arnold to surrender West Point to the British.

In late September 1780 Knox was a member of the court martial that convicted Major John André, the British officer whose arrest exposed the treachery of Benedict Arnold.

A month before Washington appointed him commander of West Point, it fell to Greene to preside over the court which, on September 29, 1780, condemned Major John André to death.

On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates about 10 km ( five miles ) north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.

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.

* In 1780, HMS Vulture, a Swan class sloop bearing 16 six-pounders and a crew of 99 seamen delivered Major John Andre to his meeting with General Benedict Arnold, near Haverstraw, N. Y., to finalize plans for Arnold's surrender of West Point to the British.

On 29 September 1780, the board found André guilty of being behind American lines " under a feigned name and in a disguised habit " and ordered that " Major André, Adjutant-General to the British Army, ought to be considered as a Spy from the enemy, and that agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinion, he ought to suffer death.

Major General Lincoln surrendered his 5, 000 men to the British on May 12, 1780, whereupon Pinckney became a prisoner of war.

* Philadelphia, 1780 / 81: Sir Patrick Clemens ( King title ), Lady Diana Knight ( Queen title ), Lady Grey ( Queen title ), Elizabeth Shaw-Worthington, Major General Wallace Worthington, Commander Clinton

After being exchanged for the British Major General William Phillips in November 1780, Lincoln returned to Washington's main army.

In August 1780, the Continental Congress elected Pickering Quartermaster General. Letter from Timothy Pickering to Major General Lord Sterling, 1777

Following the British victory at the Battle of Camden in August 1780, a detachment of Loyalists under Major Patrick Ferguson was dispatched to suppress Patriot activity in the mountains.

He was a delegate for New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1777 to 1780, as well as the Major General of the New Hampshire Militia.

The actual battle took place on October 7, 1780, nine miles south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in rural York County, South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Foot.

Major Ferguson was appointed Inspector of Militia on May 22, 1780.

She played a role in the conspiracy, which was exposed after British Major John André was arrested in September 1780 carrying documents concerning the planned surrender of the critical Continental Army base at West Point.

While home on recruiting duty, Major Murfree married Sally Brickell on February 17, 1780.

In 1780, he participated in the capture of Major John André.

In 1780, he participated in the capture of Major John André.

In 1780, he participated in the capture of Major John André.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

One of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet John Mayne, who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween ; " What fearfu ' pranks ensue!

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.

* 1704 – John Kay, English inventor ( d. 1780 )

* John Brown of Pittsfield ( 1744 – 1780 ), American Revolutionary War officer

John Abercrombie FRSE FRCSE FRCPE ( 12 October 1780, Aberdeen – 14 November 1844, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.

* 1750 – John André, English army officer ( d. 1780 )

* 1712 – John Fothergill, English physician ( d. 1780 )

* 1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician ( d. 1844 )

Image: Colonel John Bullock. jpg | Colonel John Bullock ( c. 1780 )

Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of the Rights written by John Adams and enacted in 1780 as part of the Massachusetts Constitution added the requirement that all searches must be “ reasonable ” and served as the basis for the language of the Fourth Amendment:

* 1780 – 1808 John Barker

* September 6 – John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1780 )

* May 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War ( d. 1780 )

* March 8 – John Fothergill, English physician ( d. 1780 )

* June 17 – John Kay, English inventor ( d. 1780 )

Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud ( 1742 – 1810 ), 1780.

* Murray John E. " Determinants of Membership Levels and Duration in a Shaker Commune, 1780 – 1880 ".

There is, however, a dearth of letters from Murdoch to Watt from 1780 until 1797 in the Watt archive, possibly, as argued by John Griffiths, due to an attempt by Watt's son, James Watt Junior, to uphold his father's reputation by removing any evidence of the origin of some of the inventions he patented.

* John Arrowsmith ( cartographer ) ( 1780 – 1873 ), geographer and map publisher

On March 25, 1780 a second committee to design a great seal was formed, which consisted of James Lovell, John Morin Scott, and William Churchill Houston.