'" on the competing claims of two towns to such renown: Stockton, California, and Holliston, Massachusetts.

After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.

The railway was intended to connect various collieries situated near Bishop Auckland to the River Tees at Stockton, passing through Darlington on the way.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.

Learning that war with Mexico was underway, Stockton made plans to capture Los Angeles and San Diego and to proceed on to Mexico City.

Stockton, on a separate warship, claimed Santa Barbara a few days later.

In August 2012, The Pogues embarked on a 30th anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at the Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees, UK to 11 & 12 September 2012 at L ' Olympia, Paris, two shows to be filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

* March 19 – KXTV of Stockton, California, signs on the air in the United States, being the 100th commercial television station in this country.

In September 2004, IWW-organized short haul truck drivers in Stockton, California walked off their jobs and went on a strike.

In command of a hastily gathered corps of armed cadets, he proceeds up the underground access tunnel toward Stockton, on " tumblebugs ," motorized and gyroscopically stabilized unicycles much like the later real-life Segway.

Both Stockton and Malone moved on in 2003.

Macmillan finally accepted a peerage on 10 February 1984 and was created Earl of Stockton and Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden.

Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, died on 29 December 1986, at Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown Forest near Chelwood Gate in East Sussex.

A private funeral was held on 5 January 1987 at St Giles ' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, where Lord Stockton had regularly worshipped and read the lesson.

Randall Evan Stonehill was born in Stockton, California on March 12, 1952, the son of Leonard N. Stonehill ( born September 19, 1920 ), a high school teacher, and his wife, Pauline Correia ( born February 18, 1921 ), a school teacher of Azorean Portuguese heritage, and the younger brother of Jeffrey Dean Stonehill ( born October 28, 1949 in Alameda County, California ).

Her character, Vanessa Lutz, is a poor girl living in Los Angeles, who, on the way to her grandmother's home in Stockton, encounters a freeway serial killer.

Looking south-east from Columbus Avenue ( on the left ) and Stockton ( on the right ).

The array of overhead wires supply power for the electric trolley buses such as the one seen on Stockton Street.

As used by George Stephenson on the Stockton & Darlington and Canterbury & Whitstable lines they weighed.

Stockton along with Dr. Eli Ayers of the American Colonization Society negotiated a treaty that led to the founding of the state of Liberia.

In a treaty of 1752, however, Massachusetts laid claim to the entire Penobscot watershed, and in 1759 the Pownall Expedition, led by Governor Thomas Pownall, established Fort Pownall on Cape Jellison in what is now Stockton Springs.

Following the recapture of Los Angeles in 1846, Stockton appointed Frémont as Governor of California.

On January 16, 1847, Commodore Stockton appointed Frémont military governor of California following the Treaty of Cahuenga.

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

In 1768, Stockton had his first taste of government service when he was elevated to a seat in the royal legislative judiciary, and executive council of New Jersey ; he was later ( 1774 ) appointed to the provincial New Jersey Supreme Court.

Stockton was appointed by Congress, along with fellow signer George Clymer, to an exhausting two-month journey to Fort Ticonderoga, Saratoga and Albany, New York to assist the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

Because Clark was highly vocal on his opinion that the colonies should have their independence, on June 21, 1776, they appointed him, along with John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon as new delegates.

Stockton was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. Navy at the age of 16, serving at sea and ashore during the War of 1812.

He was created Baron Weston-super-Mare, of Weston-super-Mare in the County of Somerset, and Earl Alexander of Hillsborough in 1963 – the last politician to be made an earl until Harold Macmillan became Earl of Stockton in 1984 – and was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1964.

He then worked again for George Leather as resident engineer on the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway and was appointed engineer to the railway when it opened in 1841.

Stockton and Frémont wanted to announce the conquest of California to President Polk.

In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War.

Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked both Stockton and Frémont, had orders from President Polk and secretary of war William L. Marcy to serve as military governor.

The Californio forces in California capitulated on Jan. 13, it was not to Stockton or Kearny, but to Lt. Col. John C. Frémont and his California Battalion.

Kearny and Stockton decided to accept the liberal terms offered by Frémont to terminate hostilities, despite Andre Pico's breaking his earlier, solemn pledge that he would not fight U. S. forces.

General Kearny had orders to assume command of U. S. forces in California, but before entering Alta California from Santa Fe, Kearny sent back 200 of his 300 mounted dragoons after hearing from messenger Kit Carson that all of California had already been captured by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and his 400 combined sailors and Marines, and John C. Frémont and his approximate 400 man California Battalion.

Some historians believe that the Battle of Rio San Gabriel was under-reported because of the influence of the politically-ambitious Frémont and his father-in-law Senator Thomas Hart Benton, in order to make Frémont look better by downplaying Stockton and Kearny.

As the military advance proceeds, they arrest rebel technicians and cross connect the wiring of the machinery, motor by motor, to take control away from the rebels in the Stockton office.

Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River.

His son, Commodore Robert Field Stockton, was a hero of the War of 1812, and in 1846 became the first military governor of California and later a Senator from New Jersey.

His son was the naval officer Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who defeated the Mexican army in 1846 and became the first military governor of the State of California, and later became a Senator from New Jersey like his father before him.

Commodore Sloat had previously raised the US flag, without resistance, at Monterey, but had no plan to conduct any further military operations on shore and once relieved, sailed home to the United States, leaving Commodore Stockton in command of all US forces.

Stockton, as senior military authority and first U. S. Military Governor of California territory, authorized John C. Fremont's appointment to succeed him as military governor and commander of the California Battalion militia force.

Stockton has been an adjunct to the San Francisco Bay Area, which was a major military production and transit area during WWII.

He served as an aide to Brigadier General M. L. Stockton, then attended military government school.

Originally, his purpose was to quash British and French attempts to forestall the U. S. annexation of Texas, but he later joined Commodore Robert F. Stockton in lobbying leaders of the Republic of Texas to order their military forces across the Rio Grande into Mexico.

Stockton, who had been the initial military governor of California, later granted that post to his aide, Lieutenant-Colonel ( later General ) John C. Fremont.