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John Tunnicliff, an influential farmer in the area, tried to mediate the dispute, but, as Tunnicliff reported in a letter to William Cooper, his efforts proved fruitless, even though Carr's friends and neighbors signed an affidavit testifying to his " frugal & industrious " dealings on behalf of his landlord.

John Tunnicliff ( c. 1725 – January, 1800 ) was a prominent landowner and presumed Tory in Otsego County, New York.

In the year 1774, John Tunnicliff purchased 600 acres ( 2. 4 km² ) of land in the northern portion of Schuyler's patent, commencing near the mouth of Fish Creek, and running northerly to the present line of Herkimer County, New York.

In 1783 () John Tunnicliff, Jr., came to this country from England, and located at Albany, New York as a goldsmith, his former employment.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.

John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.

In 1911, owner John I. Taylor purchased the land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street and developed it into a larger baseball stadium.

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

In 1967, Yoakum was discovered by the mainstream art community by John Hopgood, an instructor at the Chicago State College, who saw Yoakum's work hanging in his studio window and purchased twenty-two pictures.

In 1638, after conferring with Williams, Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, John Clarke, Philip Sherman, and other religious dissidents settled on Aquidneck Island ( then known as Rhode Island ), which was purchased from the local natives, who called it Pocasset.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.

The Danish West India Company settled on Saint Thomas in 1672, on Saint John in 1694, and purchased Saint Croix from France in 1733.

In 1991, Gretzky purchased the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League with Bruce McNall and John Candy.

Westinghouse had bought the patents of Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs on the subject, and had purchased an option on the designs of Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri.

After reading about the Somersett's Case, Joseph Knight, an enslaved African who had been purchased by his master John Wedderburn in Jamaica and brought to Scotland, left him.

One of them, John Clarke, learned from Williams that Aquidneck Island might be purchased from the Narragansetts.

As an art collector, she purchased works by Claude Monet, Augustus John and Peter Carl Fabergé, among others.

The date and venue of Henry's first marriage, to Mary de Bohun, are uncertain but her marriage licence, purchased by Henry's father, John of Gaunt, in June 1380 is retained in the Public Record Office.

Fort Laramie was a former fur trading outpost originally named Fort John that was purchased in 1848 by the U. S. Army to protect travelers on the trails.

After the fair, it was placed into storage, and eventually purchased by John Wanamaker for his new Wanamaker's store in Philadelphia.

Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, who had been planning to build a new church building there ; the church used the proceeds to purchase land in the Montlake neighborhood.

Denmark started colonies on St. Thomas in 1665 and St. John in 1683 ( though control of the latter was disputed with Great Britain until 1718 ), and purchased St. Croix from France in 1733.

During the campaign, the Kerrs purchased a Sydney apartment, as Sir John was prepared to resign in the event that the ALP triumphed.

Martin Brennan and John Mathieson went on to design the Flare II, which was purchased by Atari and became Atari Jaguar.

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device, the ENIAC.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

In 1691, an article in the London Gazette mentioned John Lofting, who held a patent for a fire engine: " The said patentee has also projected a very useful engine for starting of beer, and other liquors which will draw from 20 to 30 barrels an hour, which are completely fixed with brass joints and screws at reasonable rates ".

* 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U. S. patent for the sewing machine.

Later, he also filed a patent with John von Neumann, describing a method to initiate fusion in a thermonuclear weapon with an implosion trigger.

* 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named " Coca-Cola " as a patent medicine.

* 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve ( vacuum tube ).

John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed a two-bladed, fan-shaped propeller in 1832 and publicly demonstrated it in 1833, propelling a row boat across Yarmouth Harbour and a small coastal schooner at Saint John, New Brunswick, but his patent application in the United States was rejected until 1849 because he was not an American citizen.

The London Gazette of 17 March 1691 published a patent in favour of John Lofting for a fire engine, but remarked upon and recommended another invention of his, for a beer pump:

" Whereas their Majesties have been Graciously Pleased to grant Letters patent to John Lofting of London Merchant for a New Invented Engine for Extinguishing Fires which said Engine have found every great encouragement.

The first U. S. patent for SSB modulation was applied for on December 1, 1915 by John Renshaw Carson.

According to Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, authors of a biography of John Bardeen, Shockley had proposed that Bell Labs ' first patent for a transistor should be based on the field-effect and that he be named as the inventor.

The foundation of Peterhouse dates to 1280, when letters patent from Edward I dated Burgh, Suffolk, 24 December 1280 allowed Hugo de Balsham to keep a number of scholars in the Hospital of St John, where they were to live according to the rules of the scholars of Merton.

* August 26 – John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.

* August 27 – Launching a steam powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first U. S. patent for his design.

* September 7 – Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

* March 5 – Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.

On 17 February 1332, Philip VI bestowed it on his son John the Good, who, when he became king in turn ( 22 August 1350 ), gave the countship to his second son Louis I, raising it to a duchy in the peerage of France by letters patent of 25 October 1360.

* King John issues letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool.

In an agreement between John Ferrabee and Edwin Budding dated May 18, 1830, Ferrabee paid the costs of development, obtained letters of patent and acquired rights to manufacture, sell and license other manufacturers in the production of lawn mowers.

Burt and his promoter John D. Sheldon never found a buyer for the patent, and it was never commercially produced.

On November 14, 1898, John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri, submitted a patent ( US No. 634, 042 ) for a " pneumatic carpet renovator ".