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    present day Wildwood Crest, New Jersey. Near Cape May, New Jersey. Nancy was built c. 1775 by Barney Harris in Wilmington, Delaware, and was owned by Joseph...
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  • Look up nancy or Nancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nancy may refer to: Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle...
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  • Nancy, may refer to a number of ships: Nancy (1775) was an American brig that her crew scuttled in 1776 near Cape May, New Jersey during the Battle of...
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    The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed...
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    General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775". Yale University Library. Isenberg, Nancy (2007). Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr. Penguin...
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    Robert Bolling (August 17, 1738 – July 21, 1775) was an American planter, poet and politician. The great-grandson of Robert Bolling, he was born in Virginia...
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    April–May 1775, a few weeks before the king's coronation on 11 June 1775, and the second in 1788, the year before the French Revolution. The 1775 shortages...
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    of committees. In April 1775 British forces attempted to disarm local militias around Boston and engaged them. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental...
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    Second Continental Congress dated 2 December 1775 by Col. Benjamin Harrison sometime between 2 and 18 December 1775, the first US naval ship to be given that...
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    (1895) The Association of the Descendants of Nancy Ward, Biography of Nancy Ward, by David Hampton "Nanyehi (Nancy Ward)". National Women's History Museum...
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    to thirteen of the colonies seceding in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and forming the United States of America. After the conclusion of war...
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  • day gave chase to the 250-ton brig Nancy, then beating her way into Boston. Mistaking Lee for a pilot boat, Nancy laid her sails aback and sent up a string...
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    13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775. Assembled at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they appointed...
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    Ann Cary Randolph Morris (September 16, 1774 – May 28, 1837) (nicknamed Nancy) was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur...
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    December 2020. Sombreros are Becoming by Nancy Johnstone, Faber & Faber, 1941, p 8. Hotel in Spain by Nancy Johnstone, Faber & Faber, 1938; recently republished...
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    Anna Harrison (category 1775 births)
    Anna Tuthill Harrison (née Symmes; July 25, 1775 – February 25, 1864) was the first lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William...
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  • full here A group of Bristol, England merchants wrote to King George III in 1775 voicing their “most anxious apprehensions for ourselves and Posterity that...
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    politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the...
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    1778 Eric J Griffiths 1976 1976 HN2755 Captain. 2nd New York Regiment, 1775 Eric J Griffiths 1976 1976 HN2756 Musicale Eric J Griffiths 1983 1985 HN2757...
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    the 1842 Will of Thomas Jefferson McColley who lists his "living" wife Nancy. Nancy McCoy, daughter of "Old" William died in 1823. Richard McCoy and Susanna...
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    Anne Shippen (redirect from Nancy Shippen)
    Anne Hume "Nancy" Livingston (born Shippen) (24 February 1763 – 25 August 1841) was an American journal writer. Shippen was born on 24 February 1763 in...
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    during their marriage, three of whom died in infancy: unnamed daughter (17751775), died shortly after birth Elizabeth "Eliza" Parke Custis (1776–1831)...
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    Rhode Island from November 1775 to May 1778. He served as major general in command of the colony's militia from June–October 1775 until being relieved by...
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    Monmouth, NJ, passed over for younger cousin Francis Brinley John Brinley (1713–1775), Brinley grist mill owner in Oakhurst, NJ William Brinley (1754–1840), Major...
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    his wives, Peggy and Nancy. Chase was married four times: April 1819 to Peggy Gardner and had several children June 1825 to Nancy Joy a widow April 1836...
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    greater evil of being human sacrifices. In 1775 he purchased the schooner Nancy, of 60 tons (bm). On 19 September 1775, he sailed to Africa. At some point he...
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    surface, but that others had reportedly found them 30 feet (9 m) deep. In 1775, Thomas Jefferson recorded in his "Garden Book" Brood II's 17-year periodicity...
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    Ardennes) Messin (Metz, Metzgau and all of French-speaking Moselle) Nancéien (Nancy, southern Meurthe-et-Moselle) Spinalian (Épinal, central Vosges) Deodatian...
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    formally declaring independence on July 4, 1776. Following its victory in the 1775–1783 Revolutionary War, the country continued to expand across North America...
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    Fox's comedy series Making History as Deborah Revere, a colonial woman from 1775 and the daughter of American artisan Paul Revere. The series was cancelled...
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