Its founder was James Wheble, who owned land in the area at that time.

The adjoining large house of Bulmershe Court alias Woodley Lodge was built in 1777 by James Wheble.

By, Somers was at the end of his tether, and sold the team to a syndicate headed by Chicago railroad contractor James C. " Jack " Dunn.

They changed ownership three times, being purchased from the Sullivan family first by Victor Kiam in 1988, who sold the team to James Orthwein in 1992.

In 1948, James Brunot, a resident of Newtown, Connecticut – and one of the few owners of the original Criss-Crosswords game – bought the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for granting Butts a royalty on every unit sold.

These rights were held on and off by the Mortons until 1766, when they were sold by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton to Laurence Dundas.

Brown and Hamilton sold Northup to James H. Burch ( spelled as Birch in some accounts ), a slave trader in Washington, claiming that he was a fugitive.

In 1831 Monticello was sold by Martha Jefferson and the surviving Jefferson heirs to James Turner Barclay, and in 1834 Barclay in turn sold the house and remaining land to Uriah P. Levy.

In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold ( along with her two children, six-year-old James Alfred, and baby Araminta ) in Cambridge.

The engine number was traced to a Michigan Avenue dealer, who had sold the car to a James Morton of Los Angeles, California.

In 1831 she sold Monticello to James Turner Barclay, a local apothecary.

In 1704 – 06, Carolina Governor Col. James Moore led colonial militia and Ochese Creek and Yamasee warriors in raids that destroyed the Spanish missions of the Florida interior ; they captured some 10, 000 unarmed ' mission Indians ,' the Timucua and Apalachee, and sold them into slavery.

Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against the King and sentenced to death by the infamous Judge Jeffreys in the Bloody Assizes, but by the whim of King James II ( who sees an opportunity for profit ), Peter Blood and the surviving rebels are transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery.

He has continued to publish hardcover books about baseball history, which have sold well and received admiring reviews ; these books include three editions of The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 1985, 1988, 2001, the last entitled The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James ( Jim ) Thorburn who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8 and 16 bit microcontroller market.

Montpellier remained a possession of the crown of Aragon until it passed to James III of Majorca, who sold the city to the French king Philip VI in 1349, to raise funds for his ongoing struggle with Peter IV of Aragon.

The stores continued to operate under the Borders brand as the unaffiliated " Borders Asia Pacific " until RedGroup was placed into voluntary administration in February 2011 ; with the five New Zealand stores sold to the James Pascoe Group, and the Australian stores gradually shut down, with the last group to close by July 17.

In 1845 the paper was sold to James Alexander, and after only six weeks, sold back to John Cassil, who turned the paper back into a Democrat political newspaper.

Beginning in 1889, the paper was sold to publisher James Elverson.

Both Mr. Cone and Mr. Houghton sold their interests in the ranch to James Page in about 1880.

Additional parcels of Rancho Santa Anita were sold to Edward F. Spence, John D. Bicknell, James F. Crank, and J. F.

After Richard's death at Bosworth in 1485 the castle remained in royal hands until the reign of James I, when it was sold.

In 1825, George Patterson sold of Springfield Estate to his friend and business associate, James Sykes.

To the contrary, both J. M. W. Turner and James Northcote were fervent acolytes: Turner requested he be laid to rest at Reynolds ' side, and Northcote ( who lived for four years as Reynolds ' pupil ) wrote to his family " I know him thoroughly, and all his faults, I am sure, and yet almost worship him.

In Chess for Dummies, James Eade commented on the game, writing, " If even world champions break the rules, what hope do the rest of us have?

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

It was renamed New York in 1667 in honor of the Duke of York ( later James II of England ) when British Forces seized control of Manhattan along with the rest of the Dutch colony.

Pilgrims came from all over Europe creating the Way of Saint James, a major pilgrimage route linking the Asturias with the rest of Christian Europe.

Matt Groening first conceived Marge and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks ' office.

Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.

James was delivered to the English king and remained a prisoner for the rest of Henry's reign.

After recovering from tetrodotoxin poisoning inflicted by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb ( see From Russia, with Love ) MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, on a " rest cure " to Jamaica.

His father died from a cholera epidemic while visiting Augusta in 1833 ; although James's mother and the rest of the family moved to Somerville, Alabama, following his father's death James remained with uncle Augustus.

As with the rest of Hudson Bay, the waters of James Bay routinely freeze over in winter, although it is the last to freeze over in winter, and conversely the first to thaw in summer.

After his false start at uniting Aragon with the Kingdom of Navarre through a scheme of mutual adoption, James turned to the south and the Mediterranean Sea, where he conquered Majorca on 31 December in 1229 and the rest of the Balearic Islands ; Minorca 1232 ; Ibiza 1235 ).

Matt Groening conceived Homer and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks ' office.

Matt Groening first conceived Lisa and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks's office.

The Cavaliers spent the rest of the 2010 off-season rebuilding their team after James ' departure.

St. Anne's Parish covered Albemarle, St. James Southam Parish covered the south side of the river ( now Powhatan County ), and St. James Northam Parish covered the rest of Goochland.

A popular story is that when Raleigh was beheaded by James I in 1618, Elizabeth claimed his embalmed head and kept it in a bag for the rest of her life.

" In 1848, Congress agreed to buy the rest of James Madison's papers for the sum of $ 22, 000 or $ 25, 000.

In 1957, James Arthur Atwood III, grandson of James S. Atwood, and the rest of the company directors decided to cease all operations resulting in the company's final closing.

* James Nagle, Civil War general in the Union Army, moved to Pottsville as a child and resided there the rest of his life

In Scotland James IV's forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles in 1494 led to an immediate burst of castle building across the region and, over the longer term, an increased degree of clan warfare, while the subsequent wars with England in the 1540s added to the level of insecurity over the rest of the century.

The rest of the driving by the McQueen character was done by famed stunt drivers Bud Ekins and Loren James.