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

Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone in the research and development of cotton mills in the future.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

The Industrial Revolution began in America in 1787 when Thomas Somers reproduced textile machine plans he imported from England.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 023. jpg | Self-Portrait ( 1787 )

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, ( 1787 )

Governor Thomas McKean and his son, Thomas McKean, Jr. ( Charles Willson Peale, 1787 )

* September 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator ( b. 1787 )

Flax mills for spinning flaxen yarn were invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington in 1787.

In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton.

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 ".

Bell House in College Road was designed in 1787 for Thomas Wright, a stationer and later Lord Mayor of the City of London.

General Thomas was born in 1787 and died in 1879.

Thomas Say ( 1787 – 1834 ), a friend of Maclure, was an entomologist and conchologist.

File: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787.

* Susannah Brooke, sister ( 1762 – 1852 ), wife of Thomas Townley-Parker ( 1760 – 94 ), 1787 -?

In 1787 William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and a group of friends, mostly of Anglican evangelicals, formed an association to carry forward a campaign for abolition in Parliament and throughout the country.

During 1787 he wrote three letters on John Hawkins's Life of Johnson for the Gentleman's Magazine, which were reprinted by Thomas Kidd in his Tracts and Criticisms of Porson, and in a volume of Porson's Correspondence.

James Madison made this recommendation in a letter to Thomas Jefferson of 24 October 1787, which summarized the thesis of The Federalist # 10: " Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles.

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.

In 1787 Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory, after a proposal by Thomas Jefferson to abolish it in all the territories failed by one vote.

Thomas Stone ( 1743 – October 5, 1787 ) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland.

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

In 1787 Sally Hemings at the age of 14 was chosen to accompany Mary ( Polly ), the youngest daughter of Jefferson, to Paris to rejoin her father ; the widower was serving as the US Minister to France.

After Lucy died of whooping cough, in 1787 Jefferson sent for his surviving daughter, nine-year-old Maria ( Polly ) Jefferson, to live with him.

When passed in New York in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance showed the influence of Jefferson.

He probably settled on portions of these grants either in 1787 or 1791, which was included in Jefferson county and now in Hamblen county.

Thomas Jefferson, well known for his interest in higher education, frequently composed great books lists for his friends and correspondents, for example, for Peter Carr in 1785 and again in 1787.

Receiving more care than under the late owner whose favourite had been Lafite, Latour improved in the later half of the century, and later became a favourite of Thomas Jefferson, then minister to France, when he categorised La Tour de Ségur as a vineyard of first quality in 1787.

In 1771, wine from the estate became the first claret to be sold at Christie's, and upon visiting Bordeaux in 1787, Thomas Jefferson made note of Château Margaux as one of the " four vineyards of first quality ".

As early as 1787, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had discussed the desirability of a canal linking Lake Erie to the Ohio River as part of a national system of canals.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 passed by the United States Congress allowed for the creation of as many as five states in the northwest portion of the Ohio Valley on lines originally laid out in 1784 by Thomas Jefferson.

The treaty signed by Barclay and the sultan, then by Jefferson and Adams, was ratified by the Confederation Congress in July 1787.

In 1787 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society, was chosen its vice-president in 1795, and on the resignation of Thomas Jefferson, in 1815, served as president until his death.

# Letter by Madison to Jefferson, October 24, 1787.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( d. 1787 ), founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, then brought some attention back to casuistry by publishing again Hermann Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis ; the last edition published in 1785 and receiving the approbation of the Holy See in 1803.

After that, censuses followed somewhat regularly in 1787, 1801, and 1834, and between 1840 and 1860, the censuses were taken every five years, and then every ten years until 1890.

" His case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, he had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, including Illinois and Minnesota ( which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory ).

In 1787 Weston, then including lands now defined as Easton, was incorporated from Fairfield.

Along this river ( at Bonrepas ) Wilhelmina of Prussia, wife of William V, was stopped on June 28, 1787 by patriots from Gouda and then brought to a farm on the Goejanverwelle Lock.

Kauffman's 1787 painting of Goethe, then 38 years old

Ohio petitions to gain statehood, and the northern boundary is set by the Ohio constitution as the Ordinance Line of 1787 with one proviso: If the line intersected Lake Erie to the east of the mouth of the Maumee River, then " with the assent of Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extended to a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

In Pennsylvania, John Fitch, an acquaintance of Henry, made a model paddle steamer in 1785, and subsequently developed propulsion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in 1786, then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in 1787.

He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner ; became Vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire in 1750 ; Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor in 1762 ( to 1776 ); a member of the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in 1777 ; Bishop of Carlisle in 1787 ( and also Dean of Windsor in 1788 ); and Bishop of Salisbury in 1791.

After spending a short time at Woolwich to complete his military education, he made a tour through Spain in 1787 ; and then, dejected by unrequited love for his cousin Georgina Lennox ( who later married the 3rd Earl Bathurst ), he sailed for New Brunswick to join the 54th Regiment with the rank of Major.

The American Revolution then popularized this principle, followed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which developed institutions to manage popular will.

In 1787 he was appointed a professor of philosophy, and then of history, at Göttingen, and he afterwards was chosen Aulic Councillor, privy councillor, etc., the usual rewards of successful German scholars.

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 ).

Convicts were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.

The Continental Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 and then the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to control the survey, sale, and settling of the new lands.

In 1787, the Blackrock road was such a common place for highway robberies that, in an attempt to put an end to these crimes, a local meeting was held at Jennett's Tavern in Blackrock and chaired by the then Lord Viscount Ranelagh.

In June 1783, he received his discharge from the army and settled in Gardiner, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, where he was made a brigadier general in the militia in 1787 and major general in 1789, He was appointed as the first U. S. marshal for the District of Maine under the new Constitution by President Washington.

The town of Grimsby was founded in 1790 ( originally named Township Number 6 and then ' The Forty '), after a group of United Empire Loyalists settled at the mouth of 40 Mile Creek in 1787.

He then entered seminary of the Lazarists at Toulouse, but when a regiment of cavalry passed through the city in 1787, he ran away from seminary and enlisted on 23 February 1787 in the Chasseurs des Ardennes, which the following year became known as the Chasseurs de Champagne, also known as the 12th Chasseurs.

:* James Graham, Earl of Kincardine ( 1786 – 1787 ), eldest son of the 3rd Duke ( then Lord Graham ), died in infancy