In 1796 the settlements belonging to the Church ( which resisted integration ) were confiscated, and in 1797 the settlements of St. Wojciech ( north of the walled city ) and St. Martin ( to the west ) were incorporated into the city.

The future site of Washington Square was a potter's field from 1797 to 1823 when 10 to 20, 000 of New York's poor were buried here, and still remain.

* John Hughes, ( 1797 – 1864 ), born in Annaloghan, first Archbishop of Roman Catholic diocese of New York.

Croghan was adopted in 1841, Denmark was in 1807, Diana in 1830, Greig 1828, Harrisburg 1803, Highmarket 1852, Lewis 1852, Leyden 1797, Lowville 1800, Martinsburg 1803, Montague 1850, New Bremen 1848, Osceola 1844, Pinckney 1808, Turin 1800, Watson 1821, and West Turin in 1830.

* Peter I. Borst, 1797 – 1848, U. S. representative from New York

New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until the end of the republic in 1797.

* Between 1794 and 1797, the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina was divided into the United States District Courts for the Districts of Edenton, New Bern, and Wilmington.

( Slavery was slowly abolished in New York from 1797 to 1827 through a gradual mandated process.

Tompkins studied law and in 1797 was admitted to the bar, practicing in New York City.

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

Center Harbor separated from the town of New Hampton, and was first incorporated in 1797.

* Jacob Bailey Moore ( 1797 – 1853 ), newspaper editor, founder and first librarian of New Hampshire Historical Society

West Windsor Township was established by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 9, 1797, and incorporated on February 21, 1798.

Academies and seminaries for basic education were established in 1800. Notable schools include Cayuga Lake Academy which was founded in 1797, chartered by New York State Regents in 1801 and remained and its second structure built in 1835 remained until the building was destroyed by fire on April 19, 1945.

Leyden was formed from the Town of Steuben ( in Oneida County, New York ) in 1797.

The town was formed in 1797 from the Town of Schuyler ( in Herkimer County, New York ).

Salina received its name in 1797, when the Surveyor General of New York State received authority to set aside a portion of the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation for use in salt manufacture.

It retained its original dimensions until 1797, when Pittsfield ( and what would come to be New Lisbon ) was set off.

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

The collection includes numerous books on New England ancestry, newspapers dating back to 1797 and census records for Wyoming and surrounding counties from 1790 to 1930.

Michael A. Gaffney, born in Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland, in 1775, emigrated to America in 1797, arriving in New York and moving to Charleston, South Carolina a few years later.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

The first United States Patent titled " Clothes Washing " was granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire in 1797.

Hamilton Hume ( 10 June 1797 – 19 April 1873 ) was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria.

Andrew Hume got the appointment of Commissary-General for New South Wales, and came out to this colony in 1797.

Grey made a second attempt to raise the subject in 1797, but the House again rebuffed him by a majority of more than 150.

Asbury had had a portrait painted of him for his mother in 1797.

He made one great speech in the council in defence of the principles of religious liberty, but the coup d ' état of Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ) drove him back into private life.

North of the Alps, Archduke Charles of Austria redressed the situation in 1796, but Napoleon carried all before him against Sardinia and Austria in northern Italy ( 1796 – 1797 ) near the Po Valley, culminating in the peace of Leoben and the Treaty of Campo Formio ( October 1797 ).

His depiction of socio-economic conditions in Russia earned him exile to Siberia until 1797.

Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great deal of so-called humorous poetry ( mostly coarse, though much of it was popular )-- My Night Gown and Slippers ( 1797 ), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802 ; and Poetical Vagaries ( 1812 ).

Hogg first became familiar with the work of the recently deceased Robert Burns in 1797, after having the poem Tam o ' Shanter read to him.

In 1797, the Directory appointed him minister plenipotentiary to the king of Sardinia.

In 1797, he was called on to pacify Spithead mutineers, and his powerful influence upon the sailors who revered him was conspicuously shown.

Augereau and the troops led by him coerced the " moderates " in the councils and carried through the coup d ' état of 18 Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ).

Long after the war, hostility to Brant remained high in the Mohawk Valley ; in 1797, the governor of New York provided a bodyguard for Brant's travels through the state because of threats against him.

In March 1797 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney notified Adams that the French had refused to accept him as U. S. ambassador.

In February 1797 Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in a letter to Thomas Poole: " I could inform the dullest author how he might write an interesting book — let him relate the events of his own life with honesty — not disguising the feelings that accompanied them.

In Pierre François Charles Augereau's anti-Royalist coup d ' état of Fructidor 1797, Fouché offered his services to Barras, who in 1798 appointed him French ambassador to the Cisalpine Republic.

Her parents left Europe in 1797 and went to the U. S. When her father was forced into bankruptcy, President John Adams appointed him U. S. Director of Stamps.

His role in the failed Gual and España conspiracy against the Spanish crown in 1797 forced him to leave Venezuela.

Maclure had a highly successful mercantile career, making a fortune that allowed him to retire in 1797 at the early age of 34 to pursue his scientific, geological and other interests.

In 1797, he met Humboldt at Salzburg, and with him explored the geological formations of Styria, and the adjoining Alps.

In 1797 he was created Baron Wellesley, of Wellesley in the County of Somerset, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the British House of Lords.

In 1797, Joel Barlow, United States Consul to Algiers, negotiated with the dey and promised him a frigate, at the cost of nearly one million dollars.

But his progress was so rapid that in two or three years he was able to take his master's place at the lecture-table, and Fourcroy and Vauquelin were so satisfied with his performance that they procured for him a school appointment in 1797 as teacher of chemistry, and in 1798 one as répétiteur at the École Polytechnique.

Jameson's support for Neptunism, a theory that argued that all rocks had been deposited from a primaeval ocean, initially pitted him against James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ), a fellow Scot and eminent geologist also based in Edinburgh ( but not in the university ), who argued for uniformitarianism, a theory that saw the features of the Earth's crust being caused by natural processes over geologic time.

In 1797 be began a course of anatomical demonstrations, and his success encouraged him to extend the plan of his lectures, and boldly to announce a course of operative surgery.

When he left London in June 1797 for Braunschweig, this lady followed him, and after he had formally divorced his first wife ( 1802 ) they were married.