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- William Smith (December 1, 1746 – September 3, 1787) was a captain of the minutemen of Lincoln, Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolutionary War.
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In a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "tree of liberty": I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due.
Jan 12, 2002 · It was to Adams that TJ owed the copy of the new constitution (see Adams to TJ, 10 Nov. 1787), and, thanks to the French chargé d’affaires in New York, TJ was wrong in thinking that it would be three weeks before he would receive other copies from America: Otto’s copies arrived two days after the present letter was written (see Otto to TJ ...
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Born in March 23, 1769 at The Forge in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, William Smith was the eldest son of John Smith, the village blacksmith, and Ann Smith. His father died when he was only seven years old eight and was then raised by his uncle, who was a farmer. As a child, William became interested in the local fossils and began collecting them...
In 1787, Smith trained under Edward Webb, a master land surveyor and learned how to measure and value land. As Edward Webb’s assistant, William Smith surveyed estates in Somerset. He then obtained a position surveying routes for a planned coal canal from Somerset to London in 1794. His work included a fact finding expedition of the canals in the mi...
Smith moved to Scarborough in Yorkshire in 1834 where he helped found a geological museum “The Rotunda”. The museum focused mainly on the geology of the Yorkshire Coast. As a tribute in his honor, it was renamed “Rotunda: The William Smith Museum of Geology” in May 2008. He received an honorary LLD degree from Trinity College, Dublin in 1835. He wa...
William Smith (December 1, 1746 – September 3, 1787) was a captain of the minutemen of Lincoln, Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolutionary War.
William Stephens Smith. William Stephens Smith (November 8, 1755 – June 10, 1816) was a United States representative from New York. He married Abigail "Nabby" Adams, the daughter of President John Adams, and so was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams and an uncle of Charles Francis Adams Sr.
William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map of any country.
The image of Thomas Jefferson on the home page is from a photomechanical print held in the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, Presidential File, and is a reproduction of the popular 1805 Rembrandt Peale portrait in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
