* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

* 1728 – John Stark, American general ( d. 1822 )

) Allen personally escorted some of those convicted under the law to Albany, where he turned them over to General John Stark for transportation to the British lines.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime ( a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark ), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs ( which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th Century ), and the like.

* August 28 – John Stark, American Revolutionary War general ( d. 1822 )

A remnant of a Green Mountain Boys flag, believed to belong to John Stark, is owned by the Bennington Museum.

A rebel force of 2, 000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

General John Stark

New Hampshire responded on July 18 by authorizing John Stark to raise a militia for the defense of the people " or the annoyance of the enemy ".

Using funds provided by John Langdon, Stark raised 1, 500 New Hampshire militiamen in the space of six days, more than ten percent of New Hampshire's male population over the age of sixteen.

A reward that Stark likely valued the highest was a message of thanks from John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, which included a commission as " brigadier in the army of the United States ".

It is named for John Stark, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

Stark County was named in honor of American Revolutionary War General John Stark.

John Stark ( August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822 ) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

It was named for Gen. John Stark, who commanded New Hampshire troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 in the Revolutionary War and defeated the British at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

Despite being named for Gen. John Stark and originally being known and appearing on maps as Stark County when initially created and organized, an e was added to the county's name fairly early in its history.

Stark County was established on March 2, 1839 and named for John Stark a soldier of the French and Indian wars and a Major General of the Revolution serving with great distinction at Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton, and Bennington.

General John Stark

The town was incorporated in 1795, and renamed Stark in 1832, after General John Stark, author of New Hampshire's motto, " Live Free or Die ".

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

* John Brown ( Wales MP ) ( died c. 1654 ), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653

* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.

John von Neumann, who was consulting for the Moore School on the EDVAC sat in on the Moore School meetings at which the stored program concept was elaborated.

Although John fought hard for the Christian cause in the campaign in Syria, his allies Prince Raymond of Antioch and Count Joscelin II of Edessa sat around playing dice instead of helping John to press the Siege of Shaizar.

In January 1961, Rothko sat next to Joseph Kennedy at John F. Kennedy ’ s inaugural ball.

It is interesting to note that John Stanwix sat in Parliament as Member for Carlisle during the 1740s, that his surname ' Stanwix ' is the name of a historic village ( now suburb ) to the north of Carlisle, Cumbria, and that the surname ' Armstrong ' is an old Reiver name common to the Anglo-Scottish border and the Carlisle district.

An anecdote relates that Munthe was discussing publication of The Story of San Michele with his publisher, John Murray, in the garden at Southside, and Murray related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with Lord Byron, discussing publication of Byron's works.

* John Williams ( Wales MP ), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653

The six-storey John Grierson Building at its Montreal headquarters has sat empty for several years – with HQ staff now based solely in its adjacent Norman McLaren Building.

Edward Alan John George, Baron George, GBE, PC, DL ( 16 September 1938 – 18 April 2009 ), known as Eddie George, or " Steady Eddie ", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of Rothschild.

Sir John Coke ( 5 March 1563 – 8 September 1644 ) was an English office holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.

John Hampden, on the other hand, was persuasive in private: he sat on nine committees.

* John Dunton-The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues ( sat.

Two more meetings were called by Johnson in the following weeks, including the Seating-Meeting at New York ’ s Finch College, about which John Gruen reported: “ It was … attended by many artists and ‘ members ’ … all of whom sat around wondering when the meeting would start.

Faced with an aggressive attack by new Liberal leader John R. Boyle, Greenfield relied heavily on Attorney General John Brownlee, who sat next to him in the legislature, to provide the defense.

By the time Stewart took office, it was becoming apparent that the policy was not being universally complied with: Conservative MLA George Douglas Stanley alleged that judges were often hungover when they sat in judgment of those accused of violating liquor laws, and Cross's replacement as Attorney-General, John Boyle, admitted that in his estimation 65 % of the province's male population broke the Prohibition Act.

Mrs. William Odell, Mrs. Clinton B. King, John Holabird Jr., Norman Boothby, and Actress Maureen O'Sullivan will judge the costumes in the grand march at the Affaire Old Towne Bal Masque tomorrow in the Germania club.

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge, and an officer in the Continental Army.

John Dalberg-Acton stated that " The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

The authority which the magisterium enjoys by the will of Christ exists so that the moral conscience can attain the truth with security and remain in it .” John Paul quoted Humanae Vitae as a compassionate encyclical, " Christ has come not to judge the world but to save it, and while he was uncompromisingly stern towards sin, he was patient and rich in mercy towards sinners ".

* John Young ( judge ), former Federal Court of Australia judge

* John Robert Brown ( judge ) ( 1909 – 1993 ), member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights

A former savings bank named for him was merged in the 1990s with Industrial Bank of Washington, D. C. A namesake, John Hanson Briscoe, was a circuit judge and Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

* John M. Walker, Jr. ( born 1940 ), former chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

" John Finch who had been accused of high treason twenty years before, by a full Parliament, and who by flying from their justice had saved his life, was appointed to judge some of those who should have been his judges ; and Sir.

* 1945 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1857 )

One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service ; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.

Harrison County Sheriff John J. Kennedy and county judge Joseph U. Fields helped end the conflict, siding with the law and order party.

* 1754 – John Ross Key, American army officer, lawyer, and judge ( d. 1821 )

The presiding judge, John T. Raulston, was accused of being biased towards the prosecution and frequently clashed with Darrow.

In other respects, Bachiler's reputation was such that in 1642, he was asked by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine, to act as arbitration " umpire " ( deciding judge ) in a Saco Court land dispute between George Cleeve and John Winter.

Thaddeus St. John, a county court judge in Fonda, New York, recalled having seen two old friends, Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell, traveling with a black man to Washington at the time of the late President Harrison's funeral.

* December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.

* September 22 – John T. Raulston, American state judge ( Scopes Monkey Trial ) ( d. 1956 )

** John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge ( b. 1750 )

** John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide ( d. 1659 )

** John Dixwell, English judge and regicide ( d. 1689 )