# Sarah Caldwell " Sally " Lee ( 1775 – 1837 ), who married Edmund Jennings Lee I ( 1772 – 1843 ), son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

Although Girard was at first devastated, by 1787 he took a mistress, Sally Bickham.

George Washington at Constitutional Convention ( United States ) | Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U. S. Constitution.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

Washington Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States | at the Signing of the United States Constitution, September 17, 1787, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940.

* 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

" Partly at Madison's instigation, a national convention was called in 1787.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

Later in 1787 Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, Jedburgh, in layers of sedimentary rock.

Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.

In October 1787, he wrote a pamphlet titled " An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia ," published under the pen name " A Citizen of America.

* 1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

A similar reform movement for Danish, which at this time was the written language also in Norway, was led by Rasmus Rask ( 1787 – 1832 ) and his follower Niels Matthias Petersen ( 1791 – 1862 ).

An order by governor Daniel Corneille ( 1782 – 1787 ) banning garrison troops and sailors from punch-taverns, only allowing them to drink at army canteens, led to a mutiny over Christmas 1787 when some 200 troops skirmished with loyal troops over a three day period.

1787 ( fragment 1: see the third pair of images on this page ), but little could be made of them, since the indications of poem-end ( placed at the beginnings of the lines ) were lost, and scholars could only guess where one poem ended and another began.

Originating from conflicting state and federal legislation passed between 1787 and 1805, the dispute resulted from poor understanding of geographical features of the Great Lakes at the time.

On February 21, 1787, the Articles Congress called a convention of state delegates at Philadelphia to propose a plan of government.

He is thought to have performed Mozart's operas while playing in the court orchestra at Bonn, and he traveled to Vienna in 1787 hoping to study with the older composer.

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga ( now called the Estates Theatre ) on October 29, 1787.

He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel ( 1778 – 1784 ), and later at Academy of Vilna ( Vilnius University ) ( 1784 – 1787 ).

In 1787, he was given a paid position in the court of the Austrian Emperor, as Kammercompositeur (" chamber composer "), but authority in matters musical at the court was exercised primarily by Antonio Salieri.

In 1787, Jefferson sent for his youngest surviving child, Polly, then age nine.

Bligh was appointed Commanding Lieutenant of Bounty on 16 August 1787, at the age of 32, after a career that included a tour as sailing master of James Cook's HMS Resolution during Cook's third and final voyage ( 1776 – 1779 ).

His Short Classification and Description of Rocks of 1787 and his lectures set out a classification of rocks on the basis of their age based on the sequence of layers of differing material, rather than by the types of minerals as had been previous practice.

Arthur died on January 1, 1787 at the age of 44 and was buried in the family tomb in the Gardens at Middleton Place.

He was now elected a member of the Académie française, and everything seemed to promise a quiet and peaceful old age spent in the bosom of his family and occupied with scientific and literary pursuits, when the king in his difficulties wished for the support of his name, and summoned him back to the ministry in 1787.

In 1787 this company merged with the rival North West Company. Mackenzie's mother died when he was at the age of 10 and he and his father went to NYC to live with his uncle.

John Meredith, Margaret, George, and Ann also survived to adulthood, though John Meredith was killed in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1787 at the age of 18.

In 1787 and 1788 Hooper campaigned heavily for North Carolina to ratify the new United States Constitution, but by this time Hooper had become quite ill, eventually dying on October 14, 1790, at the age of 48.

Richmond became a British Army captain in at the age of 23 in 1787.

DIED, --- Also, at an advanced age, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Esq, an old inhabitant of Philadelphia, and formerly a member of Congress, and a member of the Federal Convention of 1787.

At the age of eighteen, he was commissioned captain by the committee of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1787 colonel by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Here he completed his studies and having passed his Bar examinations was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1787 at the age of 22.

In 1787, at the age of 36, Lord George Gordon converted to Judaism in Birmingham, circumcised at the synagogue in Severn Street now next door to Singers Hill Synagogue, something rare in the England of his day.

In February 1787, a group of free blacks petitioned the city's common council about the medical students, who " under cover of night ... dig up the bodies of the deceased, friends and relatives of the petitioners, carry them away without respect to age or sex, mangle their flesh out of wanton curiosity and then expose it to beasts and birds.

Born in Metz, the son of a magistrate, he studied Law at the University of Strasbourg, and, at the age of twenty-five, became councillor at the parlement of Metz ( in exchange for 32, 000 livres ), and was commissioned in 1787 to draw up a list of remonstrances.

There, he visits Helen's grave and learns that she died soon after in 1787 at the age of 23.

* Frances Ann Tasker ( 1738 – 1787 ), married the wealthy planter Robert Carter at the age of sixteen.

An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills ( 1779 – 1787 ), 4, 408 out of 10, 000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4, 738.

Francœur resigned himself from the music world, living in retirement until his own death in 1787 at age 89.

John Bouvier ( 1787 – 1851 ) was born in Codogno, France, but came to the United States at an early age.