Elbrick's mother-in-law was Caroline Gilbert Johnson ( a direct descendant of the founder of Gilbertsville, New York ( 1787 ) Abijah Gilbert, and his grandson, also Abijah Gilbert, United States Senator for Florida immediately following its return to the Union after the Civil War ).

Encouraged by Gilbert Meason, Symington demonstrated the practicality of his idea and his improved atmospheric engine was patented in 1787.

The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland, oil on canvas, Gilbert Stuart, 1787.

A little salon was attached to the dairy itself, with chairs supplied by Georges Jacob in 1787 that had straight, tapering stop-fluted legs

Cochrane was one of the earliest notable British chess masters, his playing career beginning during those of Jacob Henry Sarratt ( 1772 – 1819 ) and William Lewis ( 1787 – 1870 ).

* Jacob Bigelow ( 1787 – 1879 ), designer of Mt.

* Jacob Bigelow ( 1787 – 1879 ), American physician, botanist, architect and professor

Gouverneur Morris ( January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816 ) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

According to James Madison who took notes at the Convention, Morris spoke openly against slavery on August 8, 1787:

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia, by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early Neoclassicism | neoclassical painting ( National Gallery ( London ) | National Gallery, London )

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck ( 2 July 1714 in Erasbach near Berching ( Upper Palatinate ), Germany – 15 November 1787 in Vienna ) was an opera composer of the early classical period.

The town contains significant examples of early architecture, including the Town Hall, built as a meetinghouse in 1787, the Congregational Church built in 1840, and the first Seventh-day Adventist Church built circa 1843.

* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.

The earliest settlers on the section of bottomland that would one day become Philippi were William Anglin ( as early as 1783 or ' 84 ) and Daniel Booth ( 1787 ).

* Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk ( c. 1730 – c. 1787 ), early leader of Hasidic Judaism and primary disciple of Dovber of Mezeritch, also known as " Menachem Mendel of Horodok ".

Thomas Gage ( 1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787 ) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.

Knox in early 1787 sent George Washington a draft proposal for a government that bears significant resemblance to what was eventually adopted.

A less well known, but possibly much older version of the game is Warminster Fives, a game based on Wessex Fives which is thought to have been played at Lord Weymouth's School, now Warminster School from as early as 1787.

Walter Mould was also authorized by New Jersey to strike state coppers with this motto and did so beginning in early 1787 in Morristown, New Jersey.

In 1787 the early geologist James Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, near Jedburgh.

Because the federal government had been unable to raise any significant number of troops and Bowdoin could no longer trust local militias in the western counties, he proposed in early January 1787 the creation of a private militia to be funded by eastern merchants.

Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal GCB ( 28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860 ), known as Sir Harry Smith, was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century.

After a brief honeymoon on Long Island, the newlyweds returned to New York to live with her father until Congress adjourned. Their first child, Eliza, was born in late 1786 or early 1787 in Virginia.

As early as 1787 Molina mentioned the possibility of South America being populated from south Asia through the " infinite island chains " of the Pacific while North America could have been populated from Siberia.

James Weddell ( Ostend, August 24, 1787 – September 9, 1834 ) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74 ° 15 ' S ( a record 7. 69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle ) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.

Although his early publication of 1787, Observations on Some Parts of Natural History, incorrectly attributed the prehistoric mounds of Ohio to the Danes, in his 1797 work ( mentioned above ) he reconsidered his earlier claim, identifying the Mound builders as Native Americans.

* Thomas Price ( Carnhuanawc ) ( 1787 – 1848 ), historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century

Barnard Elliot Bee, Sr. ( 1787 – 1853 ) was an early settler and political leader in the Republic of Texas.

Admiral Samuel Graves ( 17 April 1713 – 8 March 1787 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who is probably best known for his role early in the American War of Independence.

Justine ( original French title Les infortunes de la vertu ) was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in the Bastille.

José Ignacio Álvarez Thomas ( February 15, 1787 – July 19, 1857 ) was a South American military commander and politician of the early 19th century.

Emancipation of the slaves was proposed as early as 1787, but was not achieved until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ( effective 1834 ).

Matsudaira Sadanobu ( 1759 – 1829 ) was named the shogun's chief councilor ( rōjū ) in the summer of 1787 ; and early in the next year, he became the regent for the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari.

Between 1790 and 1810, around 98, 000 slaves, along with their owners, moved west into the region south of the Ohio River ( the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had forbidden slavery in states north of the Ohio ).

Congress made a further attempt to address the concerns of slave owners over runaway slaves in 1787 by passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

When Congress created " An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters ", or more commonly known as the Fugitive Slave Act, they were responding to slave owners ' need to protect their property rights, as written into the 1787 Constitution.

He had instructions to investigate any colonies the British may have established and learned of the intention to settle Botany Bay and Norfolk Island from despatches sent to him from Paris through St. Petersburg and by land across Siberia to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, where he received them on 26 September 1787, just four days before his departure from that port.

In July 1787, the Congress of the Confederation gave to the Ohio Company of Associates " two townships of good land for the support of a literary institution " in the newly created Northwest Territory.

Through the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787, they began to divide the land north of the Ohio River for settlement.

In 1787 Thomas Jefferson, who was then ambassador to France, wrote to James Madison proposing that the U. S. Constitution, then under consideration by the States, be amended to include " trial by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land opposed the law of admiralty and not by the laws of Nations not by the law of admiralty ".

* 1787 Franklin County gains land from Wake County

The small strip of land surrounding the mouth of the Maumee River was under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Territory, because the borders originally drawn up for the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set a territorial boundary as the southernmost edge of Lake Michigan.

The land was sold and Leonard Smith platted it in 1787 with the name of “ Berlin ,” as many Germans settled in the area.

This land was part of the larger purchase and referred to as the Horse Neck Tract until February 17, 1787, when the town congregation voted to change the name to Caldwell, in honor of the Reverend James Caldwell who pushed for their organization ’ s creation.

The Chatham County Court House stood on land belonging to Miles Scurlock ; however, in 1787, the legislature declared that a town could not be established on Scurlock's land.

Symmes visited the area in 1787 and received tentative permission from the new Federal government to purchase a section of land between the Little Miami and Great Miami Rivers.

The first European settlers to the land that would become Lowell arrived in the late 18th century after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance opened the territory for settlement.

Eager to develop additional lands, the new government decided to pay veterans of the Revolution with warrants for land in the Northwest Territory, which was organized under federal authority in 1787 by the Northwest Ordinance.

A grant of land on which Monaca now stands was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent, bearing the date September 5, 1787, to Colonel Ephraim Blaine ( 1741 – 1804 ), who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, from 1778 to 1782 as commissary-general of the Northern Department, and paternal great-grandfather of James G. Blaine.

Wheeler adds, " The evil of this traffic soon became apparent to the people of the South, and when the Constitution was framed in 1787, the South demanded that the fundamental law of our land should inhibit this traffic of importing human beings from Africa.

It was part of the land which the United States allowed to be annexed to Virginia when the Northwest Territory was being organized in 1787.

Washington used his wife's great wealth to buy land and slaves ; he more than tripled the size of Mount Vernon ( in 1757, in 1787 ).

The surrounding land was surveyed and Townships created between 1787 and 1789.

Bukovina was a closed military district ( 1775 – 1786 ), then the largest district, Kreis Czernowitz ( after its capital Czernowitz ) of the Austrian constituent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ( 1787 – 1849 ), and, finally, on 4 March 1849, became a separate Austrian Kronland ' crown land ' under a Landespräsident ( not a Statthalter, as in other crown lands ) and declared Herzogtum Bukowina ( nominal duchy, as part of the official full style of the Austrian Emperors ).

Seth Reed and his family settled here and owned an 18-mile tract of land in Ontario County between 1787 and 1795 before becoming the earliest settlers of Erie, PA.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery, restricted primogeniture, mandated universal public education, provided for affordable farm land to people who settled and improved it, and required peaceful, lawful treatment of the Indian population.

The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs.

Since Georgia knew of this yet did nothing about it, the U. S. Supreme Court ( which has original jurisdiction in such matters ) granted this land to South Carolina, although the Treaty of Beaufort ( 1787 ) explicitly specified that the river's islands belonged to Georgia.