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John Wall, (aliases John Marsh, Francis Johnson or Dormore or Webb, religious name "Joachim of St. Ann") (1620 – 22 August 1679) was an English Franciscan friar, who is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church. Wall served on the English mission in Worcestershire for twenty-two years before being arrested and executed at the time of Titus ...
Brief Life History of Thomas. When Dr Thomas Hastings III was born on 24 September 1679, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Dr. Thomas Hastings Jr., was 27 and his mother, Anna Hawkes, was 11676. He married Mary Field on 6 March 1701, in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British ...
His son, John Quincy Adams, would go on to become the sixth US president. John Adams The new constitution. Massachusetts was the first state in the United States to abolish slavery. (Vermont, which became part of the U.S. in 1791, abolished adult slavery somewhat earlier than Massachusetts, in 1777.) The new constitution also dropped any ...
John Gurdon (3 July 1595 – 9 September 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1660. He supported the parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was not returned to Parliament after the English Restoration. [1]
James Anderson (c. 1690/1691–1739) was a Scottish writer and minister born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland.He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1707 and moved to London, where he ministered to the Glass House Street congregation until 1710, to the Presbyterian church in Swallow Street until 1734, and at Lisle Street Chapel until his death.
John Button (1624 – December 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1679. Button was the only son of John Button of Buckland in Hampshire and his first wife Eleanor South, daughter of Thomas South of South Baddesley.
John Ward (1629–1681) was vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon from 1662 to 1681, who ministered to Shakespeare's descendants. He is noted for his diary in which he recorded anecdotes about William Shakespeare, his family, and others. Ward's diary extends from 1648 to 1679. The original manuscript, preserved in the Library of the Medical Society of ...
