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By 1723, three generations of the Poillon family had lived in this farmhouse and during the Revolutionary War, John Poillon, a member of the Committee of Safety for Richmond County, helped bring about the famous, though ill-fated, Peace Conference at Bentley Manor in the Billopp House, now known as the Conference House.
Malta was initially chosen as the name for the township; however when the township was organized in 1849, state senator Pennoyer changed the name to Allendale, after Agnes Allen, the first person on the tax roll in the area and the widow of Hannibal Allen, who was the son of Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen.
Malta was initially chosen as the name for the township, however when the township was organized in 1849, state senator Pennoyer changed the name to Allendale, after Agnes Allen, the first person on the tax roll in the area and the widow of Hannibal Allen, who was the son of Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen.
Her father was rumored to be the richest man in America after the Revolutionary War.
In 1876, he published a revised edition of "The Campaign Against Quebec," a history of the Revolutionary War campaign of 1775 by his grandfather, John Joseph Henry.
He also served briefly as a stamp distributor during the controversial Stamp Act 1765 protests and later fled Rhode Island after the Revolutionary War due to his Tory sympathies.
Champe Rocks are named for Sergeant Major John Champe (1752–1798), a Revolutionary War soldier who became a double agent in an attempt to capture the American traitor General Benedict Arnold.
During the Revolutionary War, they and the Catawba removed their families to the same areas near Danville, Virginia, where they had lived earlier.
George Washington's headquarters were located in Cranbury while planning for the Battle of Monmouth, a major turning point during the Revolutionary War.
The historic John Rider House was built in 1785, by a Danbury carpenter John Rider, who also served as a captain in the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, and his wife Mary.
After discovering an antique metal plate near a construction site, Ernest shows it to the professor who believes that it came from a giant Revolutionary War cannon called "Goliath", (named after the legendary biblical giant).
Fort Putnam was a military garrison during the Revolutionary War at West Point.
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Sitting at an altitude of 500 feet above sea level, it was West Point's largest garrison during the Revolutionary War.
The house Connie buys is believed to have served as George Washington's temporary home during the Revolutionary War.
Henry Brockholst Livingston (November 25, 1757 – March 18, 1823) was an American Revolutionary War officer, a justice of the New York Court of Appeals and eventually an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
It is named in honor of Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War firebrand and champion of individual rights, to whom the slogan "give me liberty, or give me death" is attributed.
Hermanus Meyer (born in Bremen, Lower Saxony, 27 July 1733; died near Pompton Township, New Jersey, 27 October 1791) was a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church in America around the time of the Revolutionary War.
O'Fallon's father, James O'Fallon, was a physician who served as a surgeon in Washington's army during the Revolutionary War.
Capt. Joseph Ogle commanded a Virginia company during the Revolutionary War.
Until 1988, the lake was called Clarks Hill Lake, after the nearby South Carolina town of Clarks Hill, and the Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke, whose burial place, on the grounds of Georgia's Elijah Clark State Park, is on the western shore of the lake.
The American Revolution is a six-hour documentary miniseries about the Revolutionary War, and the instigating factors, that brought about the United States' independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The county was organized January 6, 1837 and named for Nathaniel Macon, a Revolutionary War hero and North Carolina politician.
The village was laid out by John Park in 1841 and named Marion after the Revolutionary War hero General Francis Marion.
Per author Caleb Johnson, the original of the Mayflower Compact has long been lost, possibly during Revolutionary War looting.
The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for General John F. Mercer of the Revolutionary War.
He was one of seven sons of Hugh Montgomery, Sr., of Virginia to fight in the Revolutionary War.
Nathaniel Rochester (February 21, 1752 - May 17, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.
Public pensions got their start with various promises, informal and legislated, made to veterans of the Revolutionary War and, more extensively, the Civil War.
She was the youngest daughter of Samuel Townsend and Sarah Townsend and was only 15 years old when the commander of the Queen's Rangers occupied her home during the Revolutionary War.
During the Revolutionary War, when cut off from trade with Europe, colonists had to make their own maps; De Witt assisted military geographer and surveyor general Robert Erskine in drawing the maps needed by George Washington.
St. Paul Pioneer Cemetery, founded in 1839, is the burial location for William Cannon, the only authenticated Revolutionary War veteran buried in Oregon.
The court quoted Revolutionary War-era figure James Otis; regarding writs of assistance, Otis remarks, "they are the worst instrument of arbitrary power ... that ever was found in an English law book... placing the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer."
The township was named in honor of Baron Von Steuben, a Prussian soldier who fought for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
George Washington never had children, but the book states Philip, the son of Washington, was put in charge of redistributing Loyalist-held properties in New York City after the Revolutionary War (pp. 92).
The Pell family lived in this area until the Revolutionary War and has remained prominent to the present, with family members including U.S. Ambassador Herbert Pell and U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell.
Born in Shamenkop, Ulster County, he attended the rural schools, served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, and engaged in agricultural pursuits.
From the Revolutionary War to the Spanish-American War, the United States army ration, as decreed by the Continental Congress, was the garrison ration which consisted of meat or salt fish, bread or hardtack, and vegetables.
The use of preference in Federal appointments extends back to the days of the Revolutionary War.
In 1794, Dr. Joseph Spencer gave the city its name after Vienna, New Jersey, where he had participated in a Revolutionary War battle.
The team's name refers to the city's colonial heritage, with the Continental Congress having completed the final draft of the Articles of Confederation while it met in York during ten months of the Revolutionary War.
During the Revolutionary War, Ogden and his brother Samuel sided with the Patriots, while their father David and brothers Isaac, Nicholas and Peter sided with the Loyalists.
When asked whether he thought the association with the Lacson family name was an advantage or disadvantage for him, Lacson said that he considered it an advantage, citing the long history of Lacsons who have been involved in public service in the Philippines, including former Manila mayor Arsenio Lacson, Philippine Revolutionary War hero Aniceto Lacson, and the numerous Lacsons who have served in various capacities in Negros Occidental.
He was the grandson of Truman Merchant, a Revolutionary War soldier and cousin of Vice-President Aaron Burr, and was descended from Captain John Marchant, who died along with Sir Francis Drake in his 1595 campaign.
She also befriended and sponsored emigre American painter John Trumbull, who went on to create some of the most famous paintings of the Revolutionary War era.
Battle of Guilford Court House, an American Revolutionary War battle in 1781, Guilford County, North Carolina.
See Tryon's raid for Battle of New Haven (American Revolutionary War), a 1779 American Revolutionary War battle in New Haven, Connecticut, during which British forces captured Black Rock Fort
In 1899, the newly formed Cape Fear Chapter of the North Carolina Society of The Colonial Dames of America visited the Brunswick Town to pay homage to Revolutionary War casualties.
During the Revolutionary War, the British maintained a garrison at Fort Johnson near Wilmington.
On July 4, 1917 he visited the tomb of French Revolution and American Revolution hero Marquis de La Fayette and (according to Pershing) said, "Lafayette, we are here!" to honor the nobleman's assistance during the Revolutionary War.
Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731–1782), South Carolina politician, loyal to British during Revolutionary War, father of Charles Pinckney, the governor
At the direction of Congress, the National Park Service studied the national importance of the Revolutionary War resources in New Jersey.
He was a Revolutionary War Patriot, serving in the Battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
After the Revolutionary War, Shawnees of the Ohio Country began to forge a confederacy to oppose U.S. occupation of the land ceded by the British.
At the Battle of Monmouth, an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, American General Charles Lee led the advance and initiated the first attack on the column's rear.
Lincoln County was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, second in command of the U.S. Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.
His father, John Dent, was a planter who was a patriot during the Revolutionary War.
There is some controversy over the identity of the last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War.
Henry Washington – he escaped to become a Black Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, joining the British
He is a direct descendent of Revolutionary War General and North Carolina State Senator Griffith Rutherford.
Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748–1828), American author and American Revolutionary War colonel
The award is named after Molly Pitcher who distinguished herself during the American revolutionary war.
Peter Horry, American Revolutionary War leader and Horry County namesake
His brothers, Colonel John Bowman (1738-1784), Colonel Abraham Bowman (1749-1837), and Major Joseph Bowman (c. 1752-1779), were also officers during the Revolutionary War, and all four were early frontiersman who were among the first to settle in Kentucky.
During the Revolutionary War, the settlement was destroyed by a joint Canadian and Shawnee party under British officer Captain Henry Bird in 1780.
John Crittenden, Sr. (1754–1809), veteran of the American Revolutionary War and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
His ode, War and Washington was celebrated and sung in the revolutionary war.
Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell (1758–1799), American Revolutionary War soldier and legislator from North Carolina
Lake Hartwell is named for the American Revolutionary War figure Nancy Hart.
Located in the Upstate region of South Carolina, the city of Laurens is named after Henry Laurens of Revolutionary War fame.
Throughout the years Babits has published a number of works including the book, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens which describes the Battle of Cowpens that took place during the American Revolutionary War.
Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868), painter of American Revolutionary War scenes
Parsons College was named after his father Lewis B. Parsons, Sr. His grandfather, Charles Parsons, had been an officer in the American Revolutionary War.
Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1724-1802), second in command of the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
Joseph McJunkin (1755–1846), American Revolutionary War patriot serving in the battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina
Montrose is the resting place of Cato Mead, the only known Black revolutionary War veteran buried west of the Mississippi River.
Hardy Murfree (1752–1809), military officer from North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War
Site of John André spy trial during Revolutionary War; visited by George Washington
An old name for Elmira, New York, location of the Battle of Newtown, the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition during the American Revolutionary War.
Powhatan was initially known as Scottville (after Revolutionary war hero General Charles Scott) for a brief time, and historically has also been known as Powhatan Court House and Powhatan Courthouse.
The "Mott and Downer House", a five-bay colonial house, are both on Amos Road and were both built before the American Revolutionary War.
Pulaski Park refers to a number of places named after Casimir Pulaski (Kazimierz Pułaski), a Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War hero.
Culper Ring, American Revolutionary War spy ring associated with Robert Townsend (spy)
Samuel Jordan Cabell (1756–1818), American Revolutionary war officer and U.S. congressman
The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.
In 1771, as a member of the Virginia militia he fought in the Battle of Alamance in 1771, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and George Rogers Clark's 1778 expedition to Illinois in which Fort Kaskaskia was captured from the British.
He was named after his father’s friend and political ally, Stevens T. Mason, the so-called “Boy Governor of Michigan.” He was the grandson of Lt. Lipscomb Norvell, a Revolutionary War officer and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, buried in the Nashville City Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee.
Fort Hans, a rock shelter on 3M property, was named for Hans Van Pelt, a pacifist who refused to fight in the Revolutionary War.
After the American Revolution, a rebellion led by Daniel Shays, a Revolutionary War veteran from East Pelham, culminated in a battle at the National Armory in Springfield.
Buried here are Gen. William Floyd, a famous Revolutionary War soldier and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Admiral Montgomery Sicard of Civil War fame, and Gustavus Swan.
Major William Haymond, born 1740, US soldier and civil servant who served in the American Revolutionary War