Over the years, the town lost territory to Hampton Falls, Seabrook and Newton, but gained territory from East Kingston in 1824.

In the late 1970s Yellowman first gained wide attention when he won a contest event in Kingston, Jamaica called " The Tastee Talent Contest " where deejays would perform toasting.

Many of the towns and villages that it passed through gained income and prestige as a result — such as Kingston upon Thames, Esher, Guildford, Godalming, Haslemere and Petersfield.

In September 1997, Kingston gained North American television fame after being cast on the long-running medical drama ER.

The cult following status of Kingston Wall has also gained them a steadily growing fan base around the world, mostly thanks to the Internet.

His flying career began at Kingston, Ontario in 1932 and the following year he gained his pilot's license at Ottawa.

The Weavers ' sound and repertoire of traditional folk material and topical songs directly inspired The Kingston Trio, a three-piece folk group who came to prominence in 1958 with their hit recording of " Tom Dooley ", which peaked at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

This was followed by a role as pimp Seymour " Kingston " Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie ( 1998 ).

* Kingston, Ontario was amalgamated in 1998 with the neighboring Kingston and Pittsburgh Townships.

They have three daughters: Danielle Alexandra ( born November 18, 1989 ), Belle Kingston ( born June 9, 1993 ), and Stella Irene August ( born April 5, 1998 ).

Kingston was the county seat of Frontenac County until 1998.

On January 1, 1998, the City was amalgamated with Kingston Township and Pittsburgh Township to form a new City of Kingston.

Kingston, Ontario ; Fairbanks, Alaska: The Limestone Press, 1998.

Vesna Goldsworthy of Kingston University, in her book Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination ( Yale University Press, 1998 ), addresses the question of the impact of the work of novelists and film-makers in shaping international perceptions of the Balkans.

David Alexander Cox ( born 1 August 1954 ), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Kingston, South Australia.

The Heatherton Sanatorium with its entrance on Kingston Road ( Heatherton, Victoria ) is a now defunct sanatorium located behind the Kingston Centre and it operated for nearly 85 years, before it was closed in 1998.

On 29 December 1998, Kingston married her second husband, German writer and freelance journalist Florian Haertel, having met the previous year on a blind date arranged by friends ; they have a daughter together, Salome Violetta Haertel, born 28 March 2001.

* Kingston 14 Denham Town ( 1998 ) Jamaican Vibes

In 1998, he was made a life peer as Ronald, Lord Dearing, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Garry Christian ( born 27 February 1955, Liverpool ) ( lead vocals ), Roger Christian ( born 13 February 1950-died 8 March 1998 from brain tumour ) ( vocals, instrumentalist ), Russell Christian ( born 8 July 1956 ) ( keyboards, saxophone, vocals ), and Henry Priestman ( born Henry Christian Priestman, 21 July 1955, in Kingston upon Hull, brought up in Liverpool ) ( keyboards, guitars, vocals ) formed the band in 1985.

* Kingston Township, Ontario, amalgamated with the city of Kingston, Ontario in 1998

Luther Wright and the Wrongs are a Canadian alternative country and bluegrass band formed in 1998 in Kingston.

Ras Sam Brown ( 16 December 1925-August 1998 ) was a Jamaican Rastafari elder well known in Kingston for his politics after he participated in the elections of 1961 with his Suffering People's Party.

Janette Ann Brittin, usually known as Jan ( born 4 July 1959 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey ) is a former England cricketer who played 27 Tests and 63 ODIs between 1979 and 1998.

Jody-Anne Maxwell from Kingston, Jamaica, was the winner of the 1998 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the age of 12.

* 1998 / 99-Nottingham Vipers bt Kingston Hull Diamonds ( 2: 1, 5: 3 )

In late 1997, the present Artistic Director, Craig Walker, was appointed and in early 1998 the company shortened its name to Theatre Kingston and moved into the Baby Grand Studio in downtown Kingston, where it began offering a full season of four or more productions a year.

Macdonald was born in Scotland ; when he was a boy his family emigrated to Kingston, Upper Canada ( today in eastern Ontario ).

* Kingston Road School ( 1903-1992 when replaced by Kingscroft ; the original plural title denoted that there were separate schools for boys and girls ; its site is now occupied by the town's new Police Station )

In 1777, the capital of New York State ( the first state capital of independent New York ) was established at Kingston, though it was subsequently moved to Wawarsing when the British burned that city.

Kingston lost its most influential advocate as permanent site of the Hockey Hall of Fame when Sutherland died in 1955.

A year later, Dench renewed her collaboration with Sir Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as Queen Elizabeth I in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden.

a perforated sarsen stone, which lies in a garden in Kingston Lisle, two kilometres away and which produces a musical tone when blown through, is thought possibly to have been moved from the White Horse site, in the year 1750.

The picnic was held every year and in 1912, when The Kingston Township Park opened, the picnic had a permanent home.

One of his residences in Kingston, Bellevue House, is now a popular National Historic Site of Canada open to the public and depicting the house as it would have been in the 1840s when he lived there.

The congregation used this building until 1852, when the larger building on Main Street in Kingston was constructed on land purchased from Elijah Stout.

The congregation worshipped in this frame structure until 1852, when the present building on Main Street in Kingston was constructed on land purchased from Elijah Stout.

The bank was formed at a time of transition for the coal industry, when the town's independent mine operators ( most of whom were directors of the bank ) were handing over the operation of their mines, either by lease or by sale, to a few large corporations — by 1880, the Kingston Coal Co., the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. would control most of Plymouth's coal mines.

Blount originally wanted to place the territorial capital at the confluence of the Clinch River and Tennessee River ( now Kingston ), but when the Cherokee refused to cede this land, Blount chose White's Fort, which McClung had surveyed the previous year.

Of Woolf, Kingston stated: " I found that whenever I come to a low point in my life or in my work, when I read Virginia Woolf's Orlando, that always seems to get my life force moving again.

** Bob Marley and several others are injured when gunmen burst into his home in Kingston, Jamaica and open fire.

Early Reid productions were recorded in studios owned by others, but when the family business moved from Pink Lane, Kingston to Bond Street, Reid set up his own studio above the store.

During March, Chauncey and Dearborn recommended to Armstrong that when the ice on the lake thawed, they should attack the less well-defended town of York instead of Kingston.

The town was first settled in 1622 and officially incorporated in 1644, when it was named for Kingston upon Hull, England.

Kingston is also home to the first co-op store in North America, which was closed when the Silver Lake Post Office shut down operations in 1954.

In the 1950s Kingston was transformed from a small rural town into an extension of the Boston metropolitan area when Massachusetts Route 3 was constructed, connecting Boston to Cape Cod, with two exits in Kingston ( and a third exit immediately over the town line in Duxbury ).

The town saw its largest population growth in the 1990s when the Old Colony Railroad was reopened as a commuter rail line, connecting once-rural Kingston with Boston, making Kingston an even more viable place for commuters to live.

European settlement in the Rhinebeck area dates to 1686, when a group of Dutch crossed the river from Kingston and bought 2, 200 acres ( 890 ha ) of land from the local Iroquois tribes.

The family-owned ferry has been running since 1802 when they were first licensed to operate between Wolfe Island and Cape Vincent as well as Wolfe Island and Kingston, Ontario.