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Links of Interest:
Peter Jefferson had arrived in 1735, father of Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President) born in 1743, near Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County on Rivanna River just down the road from William I Vardeman. "English evangelist preacher John Wesley and his brother Charles arrive for a visit in Savannah, Georgia, in response to an invitation issued by Georgia
proprietor James Edward Oglethorpe. They remain for a drawn-out visit before they return to England. Evangelism will make wide gains in the American colonies
with the electrifying preaching tours of English religious revivalist George Whitefield during the years between 1738 and 1770."
Recommended by a history teacher who emailed to say how useful she found the treespot website and this link! is established in 1736 from an endowment of £100 received from the estate of Sir Godfrey Copley in 1709. It is Britain's oldest scientific honour, a prestigious forerunner of the Nobel Prize. |
