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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.
This article is part of a series: Historical lists of Privy Counsellors England 1679–1714 1714–1820 1820–1837 1837–1901 1901–1910 1910–1936 1936–1952 1952–2022 2022–present Ireland Ireland (1660–1922) Northern Ireland (1922–1971) List of current members of the Privy Council This is a List of Privy Counsellors of England and Great Britain appointed between the ...
Dr. Stillingfleet still against Stillingfleet or the Examination of Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet examined, 1675. The history of English persecution of Catholics and the Presbyterian Plot, 1678; Anti-Fimbria, or, An answer to the animadversions upon the last speeches of the [f]ive Jesuits executed at Tyburne, 1679
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 ...
Schuyler family. The Schuyler family ( /ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: [sxœylər]) was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States (especially New York City and northern New Jersey), in leading government and business in ...
Evans was the son of John Evans, [1] by a daughter of Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester Castle. He was born at Wrexham, Denbighshire, in 1680 or 1679. His great-grandfather and grandfather were successively rectors of Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, and his father, who was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, was minister at Oswestry, Shropshire ...
John Foster (1648 – September 9, 1681) was an early American engraver and printer who lived in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when the colony was still in its infancy. He is credited with producing the first printed image in British colonial America, from a woodcut [a] of the Puritan minister Richard Mather .
