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After burgess William Cockerham retired in 1665, Surry County voters elected Baker as his successor, and he served the remainder of what later became known as the "Grand Assembly of 1661-1676". [3] In 1671, the General Court ordered Baker to audit some accounts. [2] The Grand Assembly ended with Bacon's Rebellion.
The Windsor Castle sailed from England under the command of Acting Captain William Rogers, bound for the Leeward Islands and Barbados in September 1807, carrying the mail. [1] She carried six 4-pounder guns and two 9-pounder carronades and had a crew of 28 men and boys. [2]
Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd. She was a type of hybrid ship that combined square rigged sails with oars to give her manoeuvrability in both windy and calm conditions. The vessel was launched at the end of 1695 and was acquired by Kidd the following year to ...
Meanwhile, John Langdon made his way through Portsmouth with a drummer, collecting a crowd to descend on the fort. Several hundred men responded to his call, setting out for the Castle by way of the Piscataqua River. Only one provincial officer, Captain John Cochran, and five provincial soldiers were stationed at Fort William and Mary.
The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity – as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle and elsewhere.
Before leaving Castle William, the British set fire to the fort, damaging it and its ordnance as best they could. [11] During the Revolutionary War, a fort called Fort Independence was built on Point Allerton in Hull, Massachusetts. In 1797, the name was transferred to the former Castle William, apparently leaving the fort in Hull without a name.
The castle played a significant role in the Wars of the Roses, and in the Civil War, when it was badly damaged. [2] Various magnates held the castle, most prominently the Percy Earls of Northumberland from the 15th to 17th centuries. [3] It passed to the Wyndham family, the current owners, in the 18th century.
HMS Centurion was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard by Joseph Allin the younger and launched on 6 January 1732. [1] At the time of Centurion's construction, the 1719 Establishment dictated the dimensions of almost every ship being built.