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These plantations played a large role in developing the Northern economy in opposing lines from the plantation-based economy of the American South. Compared to the large-scale cash crop plantations which underpinned the Southern economy, plantations in New England were small-scale, and meant mainly for subsistence purposes rather than profit ...
November 13 - Prince George William, first child born to the new Prince and Princess of Wales since they took their titles (d. 1718) 1719 February - William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789) November 30 - Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
10 June – Watkin Williams-Wynn, heir to a baronetcy, establishes the "Cycle of the White Rose", a Jacobite group, in North Wales. [10] 30 September - John Ellis becomes Rector of Llandwrog and is made a canon of Bangor Cathedral. [11] October/November - In the 1710 British general election: John Meyrick becomes MP for Cardigan Boroughs.
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1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751) 1708 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759) date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781) 1709 date unknown. Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802) David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)
Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
Thomas Johnes FRS (1 September 1748 – 23 April 1816) was a Member of Parliament, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor.He is best known for his development of the Hafod Estate in Wales.
Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."