* 1787 – John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1854 )

Governor Thomas McKean and his son, Thomas McKean, Jr. ( Charles Willson Peale, 1787 )

* November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina ( 1776 – 1780, 1785 – 1787 ) ( b. 1729 )

First settled in 1773 by Seth Walker, Langdon was incorporated on January 11, 1787, when it was named after Governor John Langdon.

* Samuel Lewis Southard ( 1787 – 1842 ), served as U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the 10th Governor of New Jersey.

In 1787, the most dramatic political event of the decade came to pass in the form of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal until 1785, on charges of corruption and extortion.

He was elected Vice-President of the Council, a position comparable to that of Lieutenant Governor, on October 31, 1787.

Washington was elected to the State legislature from 1787 to 1804 but refused to run for State Governor because he, in his words, “ was not born a Carolinian .” Washington also accepted a post of brigadier general commanding the Seventh Brigade of the South Carolina State Militia in 1794.

Daughter Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ) married Maryland Governor John E. Howard in 1787.

From 1787, the Governor of New South Wales has been also granted the title of Captain-General.

John Owen ( August 1787 – 9 October 1841 ) was the 24th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1828 to 1830.

Under the North Carolina Constitution of 1776, Spaight was nominated for Governor in 1787, but was defeated by a majority in the General Assembly ; he was nominated for the United States Senate in 1789 and was again defeated.

Johnston served as Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789.

* John Davis ( Massachusetts governor ) ( 1787 – 1854 ), Governor of Massachusetts, 1834 – 1835 ; 1841 – 1843

He was a veteran of the American Revolution, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware, and as U. S. Senator from Delaware.

* Sir James Fergusson ( British Army officer ) ( 1787 – 1865 ), Governor of Gibraltar, 1855 – 1859

Hamilton served South Carolina in many public offices including state Representative ( 1787 ), State Senator ( 1794 ), Comptroller ( 1800 ), and the 42nd Governor ( 1804 ).

* John Page ( New Hampshire ) ( 1787 – 1865 ), U. S. Senator, Governor of New Hampshire

* Francis William Drake ( 1724 – 1787 ), third son of Francis Henry ; British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland

In the battle over the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1787 – 1788, Governor George Clinton in Albany, wishing to preserve his independent power, led the local Anti-Federalists in opposition, with support for the Constitution coming from Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, largely urbanites who saw opportunity in a stronger national union, and famously published as their manifesto the Federalist Papers in New York City newspapers.

The city's and state's status within the new union under the United States Constitution written in 1787 was under question when the Governor George Clinton proved reluctant to submit state power to a strong national government, and was opposed to ratification.

At the time, the Spanish garrison consisted of 228 men under the command of Juan de Ayssa ( who later served as Governor of Nicaragua from 1783 — 1787 ).

The Virginia Plan, issued at the outset of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, proposed to pair recall with rotation in office and to apply these dual principles to the lower house of the national legislature.

The death of his patron, M. de Vergennes, in 1787, led to his recall, and the rest of his life was given mainly to artistic pursuits.

Throughout his life he had enjoyed excessive living, and his drinking probably hastened his death, which occurred in London on 20 June 1787.

In 1787, Britain had started to resettle the Black Poor of London in the colony of Freetown in modern-day Sierra Leone, many of whom were Black Loyalists who had been freed in exchange for their services during the American Revolution.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia, by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early Neoclassicism | neoclassical painting ( National Gallery ( London ) | National Gallery, London )

* Cary's New and Correct English Atlas ( London, 1787 )

The Printer ’ s Grammar, L. Wayland, London 1787.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

Sometime before his eighteenth birthday in 1787 Lawrence arrived in London, taking lodgings in Leicester Square, near to Joshua Reynolds ' studio.

Bell House in College Road was designed in 1787 for Thomas Wright, a stationer and later Lord Mayor of the City of London.

In 1787 one commentator wrote that nowhere within of London was there a village so pleasant or with such varied views.

On his arrival in London in May 1838, Howe discussed the enterprise with fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard ( 1787 – 1865 ), a shipowner who was also visiting London on business.

He was nominated to the Royal Society of London by Henry Cavendish and was made a fellow on April 26, 1787.

The village of West Grove derived its name from the Friends Meeting House on Harmony Road built in 1787 several miles west of the Friends Meeting House in the village of London Grove.

In 1787 in London Catherine acquired the collection of sculpture that belonged to Lyde Browne, mostly Ancient Roman marbles.

He was the eldest son of Edward Smith Foss, solicitor, of 36 Essex Street, The Strand, London, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Dr. William Rose of Chiswick, and was born in Gough Square, Fleet Street, 16 October 1787.

The " Death of Wat Tyler ", now in the Guildhall, London, was exhibited in 1787 ; and shortly afterwards Northcote began a set of ten subjects, entitled " The Modest Girl and the Wanton ", which were completed and engraved in 1796.

( London: R. Hindmarsh, 1787 )

( London: Robert Hindmarsh, 1787 )

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787.

**-- do .-- An Account of the Culture and Use of the Mangel Wurzel, or root of scarcity, London: C. Dilly, 1787, 8vo., 56 p. / 3rd ed.

London: C. Dilly, 1787, 8vo., xxxix, 51 p.

Some Barbadian songs and stories made their way back to England, most famously " Inckle the English Sailor " and " Yarico the Indian Maid ", which became English plays and an opera by George Coleman with music by Samuel Arnold, and first performed in London in 1787.