During a search authorized by a General warrant ( possibly set up by Sandwich, who wanted to get rid of Wilkes ), a version of The Essay on Woman was discovered set up on the press of a printer whom Wilkes had almost certainly used.

Wilkes, sailing in 1841, had some British charts, but may not have been aware of the Spanish names and charts.

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Although Wilkes County has never had a severe earthquake, an ancient fault line runs through the Brushy Mountains, and mild earth tremors are not uncommon.

However, by the 1850s the Southern Baptists had eclipsed them, and the Baptists have remained the dominant church in Wilkes.

Until recently Lowe's had its corporate headquarters in Wilkes County, but the company has since relocated its headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, a fast-growing suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina.

On 14 and 15 April 1865, John Wilkes Booth, who had two hours earlier assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, stopped by the Surrattsville tavern to pick up weapons and supplies.

Robert Whiteside, the first to leave home, had established his homestead in Wilkes County, North Carolina, He and his wife had five sons and a daughter-James, Polly, William, Jonathon, Joel and Lewis.

He also stated that Wilkes was one of the principals in the Polish church riot and that he ordered Bishop O ’ Hara out of the house ; that he was indicted for selling liquor on Sunday, and that the chief of police had his leg broken while making an arrest in his place.

In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay " Scarborough Harbour " in honor of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company, who had provided assistance to the expedition.

John Wilkes Booth himself had drugged him to prevent any interference in fulfilling his mission.

Born in Clerkenwell in London, Wilkes was the second son of the distiller Israel Wilkes and his wife Sarah ( née Heaton ), who had six children.

Although Wilkes remained in the Church of England throughout his life, he had a deep sympathy for non-conformist Protestants and was an advocate of religious tolerance from an early age.

Once the rebellion had ended after the Battle of Culloden, Wilkes returned to the Netherlands to complete his studies.

Wilkes was angry that Bute had displaced William Pitt the Elder | Pitt the Elder from power and he attacked the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) | Treaty of Paris.

Bute had by now resigned, but Wilkes was equally opposed to his successor, George Grenville.

Sandwich had a personal vendetta against Wilkes that stemmed in large part from embarrassment caused by a prank of Wilkes involving the Earl at one of the Hellfire Club's meetings ; he was delighted at the chance for revenge.

The working classes who had previously seen Wilkes as a " man of the people ", then criticised him as a hypocrite ; his middle class support was scared off by the violent action.

The French Revolution of 1789 had proved extremely divisive in England, and Wilkes had been against it due to the violent murders in France.

In some cases Kellett moved Spanish names around to replace names given by Wilkes.

Thus in Puget Sound itself, the names given by Wilkes are common and Spanish names rare, while the reverse is true for the San Juan and Gulf Islands ( although the Spanish did not explore Puget Sound as thoroughly as the British and Americans, resulting in fewer Spanish names to start with ).

Initially the settlement was called Point Elliott, the name given the location by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841.

When Henry Kellett reorganized the official British Admiralty charts in 1847, he removed Wilkes ' name MacDonough and bestowed the name Camano, which the Spanish had originally given to Admiralty Inlet in 1790.

A banquet was given to honor Wilkes at the Revere House in Boston on November 26.

Furthermore, he should govern through a reconstituted Council of State, on which the English government would have two voting members ( one of which was the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Thomas Wilkes ), and she was to be given the fortresses of Flushing and Brill as surety for the loans she extended.

Wilkes was given university status in 1990.

It was this work of Kellett's that eliminated the patriotically American names that Charles Wilkes had given to many features of the San Juans during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842.

" West Point was given its current name in 1841 by U. S. Navy lieutenant Charles Wilkes, commander of the United States Exploring Expedition.

Wilkes had given Fairfax the following written instructions:

Levaillant ’ s illustrations often influenced scientific names given by, among others, Vieillot, Stephens and Wilkes.

The command of this first stone frigate was given to Commodore Hood's first lieutenant, James Wilkes Maurice, who, with cannon taken off the Commodore's ship, manned it with a crew of 120 until its capture by the French in the Battle of Diamond Rock in 1805.

These names disappeared after 1847, when the British Captain Henry Kellett reorganized the British Admiralty charts, in the process removing the " pro-American " names given by Wilkes and affirming pro-British names and Spanish names.

Mulberry Creek, one of the largest streams in Wilkes County, takes its name from the community of Mulberry, and flows through the area.

John Wilkes Booth, according to Granbury legend, moved to Hood County and assumed the name of John St. Helen.

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Wilkes ' name Saratoga Passage was retained.

George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in the Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the later film of the same name.

It appeared in print in the United States in 1952 with the name of the school changed to " Crossgates ", but not in the United Kingdom until after the death of Mrs. Wilkes.

After John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, the infamy associated with the Booth name forced Edwin Booth to abandon the stage for many months.

Edwin, who had been feuding with John Wilkes before the assassination, disowned him afterward, refusing to have John's name spoken in his house.

Mount McLoughlin has been known by a number of different names over the years, including Mount Pitt ( after the Pit River ), Big Butte, M ' laiksini Yaina ( Klamath Indians ), Malsi ( Takelma Indians ), Mount Shasty ( although this name was applied to Mount Shasta to the south by the 1841 Wilkes Expedition ), and Snowy Butte.

Wilkes County is the name of two counties in the United States:

During the Wilkes Expedition, American explorer Charles Wilkes renamed the island Rodgers Island ; the Spanish name remained on British nautical charts and over time became the island's official name.

Wilkes University was first established in 1933 by Bucknell University under the name " Bucknell Junior College " ( BUJC ) in Wilkes-Barre.

In 1841 Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition gave it the name " Allshouse Island ", probably for Joseph Allshouse, a member of his crew.

As head of Confederate secret agents some speculate that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, met with Thompson but this has not been proven ( Thompson worked hard to clear his name of involvement in the assassination in the years after the war ).

Although written anonymously, The North Briton is closely associated with the name of John Wilkes.

* Bernard O ' Mahoney, who since the 1990s has made his name as an author of true crime books, lived in Wilkes Road, Codsall, for some 20 years after moving from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, as a child in the 1960s.