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John Macarthur was born at Stoke Damerel near Plymouth, England in 1767.His exact date of birth is unknown, but his baptism was registered on 3 September 1767. [2] He was the second son of Alexander Macarthur, who had fled Scotland to the West Indies after the Jacobite rising of 1745 before returning to Plymouth to work as a linen draper and mercer.
John Hart Crenshaw (November 19, 1797 – December 4, 1871) was an American landowner, salt maker, kidnapper and slave trader, based out of Gallatin County, Illinois. Slave trader [ edit ]
Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society.He played a leading role in bringing Christianity to New Zealand.
Collected salt mounds Naturally formed salt crystals Ancient method of boiling brine into pure salt in China. Salt, also referred to as table salt or by its chemical formula NaCl (sodium chloride), is an ionic compound made of sodium and chloride ions. All life depends on its chemical properties to survive.
General John Campbell, 17th Chief of MacArthur Campbells of Strachur (1727 – 28 August 1806) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, who commanded the British forces at the Siege of Pensacola, and succeeded Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester as Commander-in-Chief in North America in 1783 following the end of the American War of Independence.
[2] [4] John C. Stanly's mother was an Ebo slave, who was born off the West Coast of Africa, in the region of Nigeria, and brought to America on a ship owned by John Wright Stanly. Because of the status of his African-American mother, Stanly was born a slave.
This article is a weaving together of original writing by Eric Avery with some personal history he told Matt Thompson on a rooftop one sunny day. We left Los Angeles as a band in the mid-’80s in ...
Russell, who was a sister of Patrick Henry and Annie Henry Christian, [1] was born in Hanover County, Virginia, to John Henry and Sarah Winston.In 1776 she married Gen. William Campbell (1745–1781), the commander of the American forces that defeated the British at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780; this was the turning point of the American Revolution.