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The Fête de la Fédération at Champ de Mars with in the distance the King's tent ( Musée de la Révolution française ). The Fête de la Fédération ( Festival of the Federation) was a massive holiday festival held throughout France in 1790 in honour of the French Revolution, celebrating the Revolution itself, as well as national unity.
Page 2. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: These will certify that the bearer, DEA. JAMES MARS, has been known to me and to the citizens of this town for a long period of years, as an honest, upright, truthful man,--a good citizen, an officer in his church, and a man whose life and character have gained the approbation, the esteem, and the good wishes of all who know him.
Boston King (c. 1760–1802) was a former American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He later immigrated to Sierra Leone , where he helped found Freetown and became the first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people.
Nationality. French. Education. Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Known for. painting. Movement. Neoclassicism. Charles Thévenin (12 July 1764 – 28 February 1838) was a neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes from the time of the French Revolution and First French Empire .
- Charles Thévenin, 12 July 1764, Paris, France
- Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
- 28 February 1838 (aged 73)
- French
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title. Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself. by James Mars, b. 1790.
The 1790 census was the first federally sponsored count of the American people. One of the most significant undertakings of George Washington's first term as president, the census fulfilled a constitutional mandate and was interpreted by many as evidence of national prosperity and progress.
Dec 1, 2023 · This was the first national census conducted in the United States and is NARA microfilm publication M637 First Census of the United States,1790 from Record Group 29 Records of the Bureau of the Census. This index is provided by Ancestry.com. The census schedules were also published by the Government Printing Office in 1908.
