Tinker's Creek was named after Captain Joseph Tinker, the principal boatsman of Moses Cleaveland's survey crew, who died in a boating accident while returning to New England in the fall of 1797.

In 1836 the German botanist Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini ( 1797 – 1848 ) identified a second species while working on specimens collected on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and named it Swietenia humilis.

Królewska Huta ( German Königshütte ): The industrial and residential settlement south-west of Chorzów constructed since 1797 around the Royal Coal Mine and Royal Iron Works was named Królewska Huta by the Poles or Königshütte by the Germans, both names meaning Royal Iron Works.

It is named after Joseph Henry ( 1797 – 1878 ), the American scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction independently of and at about the same time as Michael Faraday ( 1791 – 1867 ) in England.

Brooke County was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.

It was named for Joseph McDowell, a Revolutionary War leader and hero of the Battle of King's Mountain, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799.

It was named for Joseph Caldwell, presiding professor ( 1796 – 1797, 1799 – 1804 ) and the first president ( 1804 – 1812, 1816 – 1835 ) of the University of North Carolina.

It was formed in 1797 and was named for James Garrard, Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.

It was founded in 1797 by Col. John Preston — for whom it was named — along with Solomon Stratton, Matthias Harman and Andrew Hood.

The first European descendant to settle in Owensboro was frontiersman William Smeathers ( Smothers ) in 1797, for whom the riverfront park in downtown Owensboro is named.

While pursuing the Indians, the Spaniards came upon a fertile valley in 1797 which was named Los Vallecitos de San Marcos ( Little Valleys of Saint Mark ) to honor the day of discovery: April 25, “ St.

On behalf of other investors and their heirs, Gen. Samuel Hopkins and Thomas Allin, a surveyor, in 1797 visited Red Banks and laid out plans for a town, which was named Henderson.

Residents referred to their new community as “ Brunerstown ,” but it was officially named “ Jeffersontown ”, after then Vice-President Thomas Jefferson, on May 3, 1797, when it was incorporated as a city.

The city is named for Peter Hammond ( 1797 – 1870 )— possibly anglicized from Peter av Hammerdal ( Peter of Hammerdal )— a Swedish immigrant who first settled the area around 1818.

New Windsor was laid out in 1797 and originally named Sulphur Springs.

The town was officially incorporated in 1797, and was supposedly named for the land's resemblance to the Duchy of Savoy in France.

Settlers failed to meet the terms of the original grant, so the plantation was transferred in 1770 to grantees including Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, after which it was named Cockburn Town, incorporated in 1797.

The township was incorporated in 1797 out of part of the existing Newton Township, and was said to have been named after Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a visitor who hailed from that area came to help out at the rural school in the township.

It is named after early settlers of the Allen family who arrived around 1797.

The first European settlers arrived in 1797 and the village was founded in 1831 by David Huffman, who originally named it New Paris.

By an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 27, 1797, Wheeling was named the county seat of Ohio County.

Between 1788 and 1797 he occupied a property named " Villakin " in Sandown, Isle of Wight.

She was named Elizabetta Lucia Bartolozzi in London in 1797, the first of two daughters of the highly regarded German pianist Theresa Jansen Bartolozzi and Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi ( 1757 – 1821 ).

It is named after Michael Jenks, who settled here in 1797 and built a sawmill in 1803.

Lee died at his residence ( named “ Menokin ”) in Richmond County, Virginia, on January 11, 1797.

The first baptism took place on September 2, 1797, when 24-year old Gilpae from the Palos Colorados ( redwoods ), probably the San Leandro area, was baptized.

A few years after the French Revolution, the Ionian area came under the rule of the First French Republic ( 1797 – 1798 ), and the island became the honorary capital of Cephallonia, Lefkada, and part of the Greek mainland, which formed the French département of Ithaque ( the prefecture was at Argostoli on Kefalonia ).

Turner first visited Otley in 1797, aged 22, when commissioned to paint watercolours of the area.

By 1797, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España became established nearby and served as a catalyst to change the native population, which inhabited the area around Northridge for centuries.

When first settled, the area that presently constitutes Portage County was part of the original Jefferson County, which had been organized in 1797.

The house was finally demolished in 1797 for the formation of Peckham Hill Street, as the Shard family developed the area.

George Bass explored the area in 1797, following Seven Mile Beach.

Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize.

Both East Windsor Township and West Windsor Township were formed when Windsor Township was split on February 9, 1797, while the area was still part of Middlesex County.

The area was first settled around 1797 by Petey Pablo and Art Cart Ramaforn.

The town was formed on May 12, 1797 from land from the Town of Boonville and the major settlement in the area, Ava Corners.

Although they had to leave for a while due to Indian attacks in the area, they returned between 1797 and 1800.

In 1797, the first settlers built Carpenter's Run Baptist Church out of Fraxinus quadrangulata ( blue ash ) logs, giving the area its eventual name.

The Mentor Headlands area of Mentor, located in the northeast portion of the city, was settled in 1797 by Connecticut Land Company surveyors.

Joseph Baldridge, another settler that built a mill in the area, was conveyed a deed for a tract of land known as " Hermitage " in 1797.

William Nolen, his wife, Sarah, and their five children were passing through the area in 1797 when their wagon wheel broke.

Turner, the painter, visited Otley in 1797, aged 22, when commissioned to paint watercolours of the area.

He married a Native American woman ( Esther ) and moved his family to the Wellsville area by 1795, while it was still owned by the Seneca Nation ( two years before the Big Tree Treaty of 1797.

The area was not forced to contribute men to the Russian Army until 1797.

Francis II relinquished his claim on the Low Countries in the Treaty of Campo Formio of 1797 and the area remained part of France until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

With the exception of the Separate Baptist in Christ, the denominational name Separate Baptist disappeared in many area of the country with the formal and informal agreements of union between the Regular Baptists and Separate Baptists, beginning in Virginia in 1787, in the Carolinas in 1789, and in Kentucky in 1797 & 1801.

From the 13th / 14th century until 1797, the area was part of the Vorlande, the area in southwest Germany ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs, but the Breisgau, along with the rest of the Vorlande, was ceded by them to the former Duke of Modena, a relation, as compensation for his loss of his hereditary lands to the French Cisalpine Republic.