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Benjamin Moses Kirkland
1750 - 10/23/1805
Benjamin Moses Kirkland was born about 1750 somewhere in South Carolina and died on October 23, 1805 in Orangeburg, Barnwell, South Carolina. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 55 years old.

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2 1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752.
19 1769 The first steam engine is invented by Watt
27 1777 The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier
33 1783 The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
35 1785 The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
43 1793 The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
49 1799 The Rosetta Stone was discovered
50 1800 The first battery was invented by Volta
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25 1775 NEWS HEADLINES: On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
26 1776 NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
50 1800 NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
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5 1755 Joseph Salvador purchases land near Fort Ninety Six for Jewish settlement.
32 1782 During 1782-1783, land to the south and west of the Tugaloo and Savannah Rivers are ceded by the Cherokee and Creek.
33 1783 Charles Town is officially renamed Charleston, SC.
38 1788 South Carolina joins the United States of America. State government is moved from Charleston to Columbia two years later.
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10 1760 The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
13 1763 Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies.
16 1766 Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America
23 1773 Angered by the tea tax of 1767 and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party.
24 1774 The First Continental Congress of fifty-five representatives (except from the colony of Georgia) meets in Philadelphia to discuss relations with Britain, the possibility of independence, and the hope of a peaceful solution. King George III scorns the thought of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
25 1775 On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
26 1776 July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
28 1778 Alliance between United States and France
37 1787 Constitution of the United States is signed
43 1793 Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
44 1794 The United States establishes the Navy
48 1798 Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
53 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
54 1804 The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
55 1805 Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a “horse path” through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
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6 1756 Seven Year's War begins
9 1759 Jesuits are forced out of France
13 1763 Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal
14 1764 Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items.
17 1767 Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America
29 1779 Spain declares war on England
30 1780 Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland
33 1783 Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
37 1787 Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
38 1788 Russia begins war with Sweden
39 1789 French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
42 1792 French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
43 1793 Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
45 1795 White Terror and bread riots in Paris
46 1796 Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
47 1797 Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa


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Alice Odom
Born about 1740 and died about 1805
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Josiah Kirkland
Born in Edgefield, South Carolina on July 21, 1805 and died in Headland, Henry County, Alabama on August 16, 1878. He was about 73 years old.

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