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In the summer of 1775, his sister Elizabeth ( age 7 ) and his brother Reuben ( age 3 ) died in a dysentery epidemic that swept through Orange County because of contaminated water.
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In January 1775 he returned to Edinburgh, and that summer went with his aunt Jenny to take spa treatment at Bath in England, where they lived at 6 South Parade.
During the summer of 1775, Carleton directed the preparation of provincial defences, which were focused on Fort Saint-Jean.
In the summer of 1775, the unit was absorbed into the Continental Army.
This letter, and other communications from the New York Congress, combined with the activities of vocal American supporters, stirred up the Quebec population in the summer of 1775.
The Governor and his family were driven from their home in Portsmouth in the summer of 1775 and forced to take refuge in the fort, guarded by the guns of British warships.
Invited by his students, he visited England twice, from Easter to early summer 1770 and from August 1774 to Christmas 1775, where he was received cordially by George III and Queen Charlotte.
Citing the press of family business, Few rejected the offer of a captaincy in one of the first units North Carolina raised for the Continental Army in the summer of 1775.
The first ranges from 1775 until the summer of 1778, as the Royal Navy was engaged in cooperating with the troops employed against the American revolutionaries, on the coasts, rivers and lakes of North America, or in endeavouring to protect British commerce against the enterprise of American privateers.
Although the Province of Georgia had managed to remain relatively neutral before these events, radicals in the Georgia provincial congress came into power during the summer of 1775 and progressively stripped Georgia's Royal Governor, James Wright, of his powers.
He led his company against Loyalist forces in the battle at Reedy River in December 1775 and the following summer commanded 300 militia in a successful expedition against pro-Loyalist Cherokees.
This second expedition failed as well when, after reaching Uruppu in the summer of 1775, the ship sank in a storm.
Throughout the summer and fall of 1775, both sides dug in, with occasional skirmishes, but neither side chose to take any significant action.
The first two companies to leave Maryland were assembled in Frederick in the summer of 1775 under the command of Captains Cresap and Price ; they were organized in response to the Continental Congress ' call to active duty.
Independence Hall was the principal meetinghouse of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1783 and the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787.
During the summer of 1775 he attempted to raise substantial additional militia forces from the population.
summer and sister
Blair and his sister Avril spent the summer holidays making the house habitable while he also worked on Burmese Days.
During a visit with her sister Lisa Anne in Toronto, the summer after eleventh grade, Furtado met Tallis Newkirk, member of the hip hop group Plains of Fascination.
ABC resuscitated it-with still more changes in cast ( most notably, Alice Ghostley replaced Sudie Bond in the role of Paul's sister Edwina ) and premise-in the summer of 1974, when it ran for two months.
That summer, Bakunin became embroiled in a family row, taking his sister ’ s side in rebellion to an unhappy marriage.
* Camps Baco and Che-Na-Wah -- brother / sister camps located on Lake Balfour in the summer
Word came in the summer of 1846 that Rubinstein's father was gravely ill. Rubinstein was left in Berlin while his mother, sister and brother returned to Russia.
Sometime between the fourth and fifth seasons ( during the summer of 2000 ), the mysterious " Key " is transformed into Buffy's younger " sister ", Dawn Summers and the evil goddess Glory arrives in the town, leading to a increase in the number of mentally ill patients, due to her ability to suck the sanity of their brains to maintain her own sanity.
After moving to San Diego in the summer of 1992, Hoppus was reunited with his sister Anne Hoppus, who he complained to over his desire to be in a band.
During the summer of 2011, the RCA Music Group underwent a restructuring which saw the elimination of the Arista name later on that year, along with sister labels Jive and J. RCA Records will now start releasing all RCA Music Group releases under RCA Records.
Hephaestion gave perhaps the ultimate proof of this in the summer of 324 BC, when he accepted as his wife, Drypetis, daughter of Darius and sister to Alexander's own second wife, Stateira.
In the early summer of 1942, Scholl, his sister Sophie, Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, and Alexander Schmorell co-authored six anti-Nazi Third Reich political resistance leaflets.
Natascha ’ s Jewish father and her sister, seeing the handwriting on the wall, had already left for the U. S. in the summer of 1933.
During the later summer and fall, the exploratory party had accomplished the work they had set out to do, and they returned to their families in Duanesburgh, except Abram Raymond and his wife, Betsey Gray Raymond, the daughter of John Gray and Elizabeth Skeel and sister of Nathaniel Gray.
The first venue on Tyneside, it was not as popular as the sister track at Gosforth Stadium which opened early summer and the Whitley Bay track was closed.
Stephen's sister, Sarah Siddons was the first London actor of repute to break through the prejudice which regarded summer " strolling ," or starring in the provincial theatres, as a degradation.
The divine wedding between brother and sister, two children of the supreme god, was celebrated in a festival of summer solstice, today variously known as Ivanje or Ivan Kupala in the various Slavic countries.
When Jason's parents and sister leave town for a summer holiday, Jason and Kaylee use their savings to fly to Los Angeles to confront Wolf, leaving local bully Bret Callaway ( Taran Killam ) to attend to Kaylee's absent-minded grandmother Pearl ( Sparkle ) after Jason bribed him by promising to do his summer school homework for him.
Edmund was nevertheless knighted, married at the age of twenty, in the summer of 1347 Sybil de Montacute, a younger daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison, whose elder sister Elizabeth was married to his maternal uncle ( the uncle may have arranged this marriage ).
Earlier, in the summer of 1174, Dafydd had married Emme of Anjou, half sister of Henry, and sister of Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, both illegitimate children of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou ).
Wachs and Von Hasessler were rehired by Clear Channel at sister station news-talk WGST in March, 2005, before moving back to 96Rock for a second stint starting that summer, but were fired again in 2006 for secretly taping co-workers ' conversation in the restroom.
Following her sophomore year in 1929, she went on summer vacation with her mother and older sister to visit family in the Los Angeles, California area.
Bob Thurber's ' Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel ' ( 2011 ) tells the experiences of a 14-year-old paperboy and his emotionally troubled sister during the summer of 1969.
summer and Elizabeth
Last summer John and Elizabeth Sherrill were in Alaska.
In summer 1824, Patrick sent Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily to Crofton Hall in Crofton, West Yorkshire, and subsequently to the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.
Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.
In summer 1951, Queen Elizabeth and her daughters fulfilled the King's public engagements in his place.
Queen Elizabeth II's scheduled tour of Canada in the summer of 1984 posed a problem for Turner before the election.
In doing so, he had to postpone a planned Canadian summer visit by Queen Elizabeth II, who makes it her policy to not travel abroad during foreign election campaigns.
They are popular in the summer, particularly the Queen Elizabeth Gardens, as the water there is shallow and slow-flowing enough to enter safely.
In summer 1548, a pregnant Catherine Parr discovered Thomas Seymour embracing Princess Elizabeth.
Robert Lowell's Flying from Bangor to Rio 1957 was written at the poet's summer house in nearby Castine, Maine about the experience of seeing off his friend, the poet Elizabeth Bishop at the Bangor Airport.
The tribe did not settle permanently on the Elizabeth Islands, but used them in summer for hunting, fishing, and gardening.
Elizabeth City commonly experiences thunderstorms during these summer months and has endured many tropical storms and hurricanes due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.
In the summer of 1852, Stone went to Seneca Falls, New York, to meet at the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and help draw up the charter for a proposed " People's College ".
He did his first field collecting without his father with Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle in the summer of 1935, finishing his BA in Philosophy at the University of Texas the following year.
In October 1802, his father married Anderson's daughter Elizabeth, and nine months later, on July 23, 1803 Maverick was born at his family's summer home in Pendleton District, South Carolina.
Her appearance at Chichester Festival Theatre in Somerset Maugham's The Circle as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney in summer 2008 followed on from her appearance in the same play ( and venue ) as Elizabeth Champion-Cheney ( Lady Catherine's daughter-in-law ) in 1976.
Hanson met Margaret Elizabeth Nelson at her parents ' summer home on Lake Chautauqua in the Chautauqua Institution in New York.
John Murray Forbes bought the island of Naushon, one of the Elizabeth Islands northwest of Martha's Vineyard and southwest of Cape Cod, in the 1840s and he and his descendants have used it as a summer retreat ever since.
In summer of 1920, his 9 year old daughter Elizabeth drowned in front of him.
Mean summer waterflow has increased over the period 1967 to 2006 from 3. 5 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s to 5. 0 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s as recorded at a measuring station near the river mouth at the Queen Elizabeth Way.
Robert, his two young daughters Elizabeth and Mary and his sister Mary sailed for Canada in the summer and arrived in Quebec, probably in September, where he wintered before proceeding to Upper Canada.
In the summer of 2009, he presented the Channel 4 series, On Tour With The Queen, which looked at the impact of Queen Elizabeth II's tour of the Commonwealth that took place between November 1953 and May 1954.
In 1743, Oranienbaum became the summer residence of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovitch, the heir of Empress Elizabeth ( the future Emperor Peter III ).
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