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John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.
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Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.
John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.
John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.
John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.
Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.
Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.
* 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government.
* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".
They were signed into law by President John Adams.
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In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".
John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.
* 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.
He was appointed by President John Adams as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805.
He did not stand for re-election in 1792, and was a presidential elector for John Adams in the 1796 election.
* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer
* 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.
John Adams, who received the next highest vote total, was elected Vice President.
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The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.
In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.
As Aston Martin required greater investment, he also agreed to sell his share holding to American importer and Greek shipping tycoon Peter Livanos, who invested via his joint venture company with Nick and John Papanicalou, ALL Inc. Gauntlett remained chairman of the AML company 55 % owned by ALL, with Tickford a 50 / 50 venture between ALL and CHI.
This early version ran on the Marinchip Systems 9900 computer ( Marinchip Systems was owned by Autodesk co-founders John Walker and Dan Drake ).
At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the New World, sailing with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives, the Hawkins family of Plymouth.
This was owned by John Middleton Murry, who had released editorial control to Max Plowman and Sir Richard Rees.
In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.
Using the money raised with the concert, the Don't Make a Wave Committee chartered a ship, the Phyllis Cormack owned and sailed by John Cormack.
He also began acting at Baltimore's Holliday Street Theater, owned by John T. Ford, where the Booths had performed frequently.
Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features Pony Express founder Alexander Majors, Westport / Kansas City founder John Calvin McCoy and Mountainman Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.
American soldiers swept through the Ontario area around Port Rowan burning towns and villages, but spared a gristmill owned by a Canadian mason named John Backhouse, according to one report.
* The Norwegian company Seadrill owned by John Fredriksen is involved in offshore oildrilling, expected to give the Burmese Military Junta oil and oil export revenues.
The Giants are currently owned and operated by John Mara and Steve Tisch.
After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.
US intellecutal property rights are owned by Lionsgate, as successor-in-interest to Canadian-financed films by producers John Dunning & Andre Link and their company Cinepix ; Lionsgate has in turn licensed DVD rights to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
In the original script, the Dude's car was a Chrysler LeBaron, as Dowd once owned, but that car was not big enough to fit John Goodman so the Coens changed it to a Ford Torino.
coral reefs include Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument and the Buck Island Reef National Monument ; more than half of Saint John and nearly all of Hassel Island are owned by the U. S. National Park Service
One of the studio's first CinemaScope films, The High and the Mighty ( now owned by John Wayne's company Batjac ), enabled the studio to show a profit.
* March 16, 1827 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
* March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
Sutter's Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th century pioneer John Sutter in partnership with James W. Marshall.
John Maynard Keynes, who had argued against such a gold standard, proposed to put the power to print money in the hands of the privately owned Bank of England.
Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.
A remnant of a Green Mountain Boys flag, believed to belong to John Stark, is owned by the Bennington Museum.
Huels owned a security firm, SDI Security, Inc. along with his wife, Jacqueline, and his brother, John, a Chicago police lieutenant.
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