Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia. Ball was...
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Joseph or Joe Ball may refer to: Joseph Ball (Virginia public servant) (1649–1711), English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in...
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records used the term "servant" that it meant that blacks who landed in Virginia were indentured servants. Unlike indentured servants, slaves were taken against...
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Melungeon (category History of Virginia)
sub-Saharan Africans. Their ancestors were likely brought to Virginia as indentured servants in the mid-17th century. According to the 1894 Department of...
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Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775), a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures...
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Thomas Jefferson (category 19th-century Virginia politicians)
Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and served as the second governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1785, Congress...
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Thomas Sumter (category People from Hanover County, Virginia)
in Hanover County in the Colony of Virginia. His father, William Sumpter, was a miller and former indentured servant, while his mother, Elizabeth, was...
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Franklin and Armfield Office (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
Ball, Edward (November 2015). "Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears". Smithsonian Magazine. "Andrew Joseph Russell | Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia"....
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Daniel L. Coberly (category People from Fort Belvoir, Virginia)
Coberly (born 1954) is an author, journalist, historian, and noted civil servant from the United States. The son of a Special Forces Non-commissioned officer...
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Nixon. In 2016, McCloskey published a tribute to Lujan titled An Honest Public Servant. In January 1980, McCloskey was one of six members of an official bipartisan...
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Jefferson Davis (category Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia))
advanced into northern Virginia in July 1861. It was defeated at Manassas by two Confederate forces commanded by Beauregard and Joseph Johnston. After the...
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of Virginia announced its project team had determined the execution site on Gallows Hill in Salem, where nineteen "witches" had been hanged in public. Members...
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Roads to the South (1978) Richard Rodney Bennett Chance Meeting (1959) The Servant (1963) Secret Ceremony (1968) Figures in a Landscape (1970) The Go-Between...
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of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held...
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Harrison - Key Events". Charlottesville, Virginia: Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. October 7, 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-27. "O'Higgins...
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War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones...
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Congressional baseball shooting (redirect from Alexandria ball practice shooting)
2017. Retrieved August 13, 2021. Pearce, Matt; Tanfani, Joseph (June 14, 2017). "Virginia gunman hated Republicans, and 'was always in his own little...
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Effingham had gone for a walk through Richmond by themselves without any servants: "I am not satisfied in my mind about the propriety of a Queen walking...
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Louis XVI (category Publicly executed people)
placed in a pension; Ernestine Lambriquet (1778–1813), daughter of two servants at the palace, who was raised as the playmate of his daughter and whom...
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John Tyler (category 19th-century Virginia politicians)
proposals, he suggested Virginia actively expand its road system. A proposal was made to expand the state's poorly funded public school system, but no significant...
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of Black Mormons: Ball, Joseph T." University of Utah. Staker, Mark L. (2009). Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations...
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British composer and conductor, cancer. Wendy Witter, 88, British public servant. Stefan Abadzhiev, 89, Bulgarian footballer (Levski Sofia, Wiesbaden...
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Joe Lieberman (redirect from Joseph Lieberman)
mourn his loss with all who admired this truly good man and dedicated public servant. While we often differed on domestic policies, Senator Lieberman was...
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(1788–1863), Massachusetts businessman and public servant William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist minister, librarian William Ball Rice (1840–1909), industrialist and...
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George Washington (category Continental Army officers from Virginia)
County, Virginia. He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was a justice of the peace and a prominent public figure...
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Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013) 1917 – Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (d. 2020) 1917 – David Tomlinson, English actor (d. 2000) 1919 – Eva...
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of Holy Cross Order of the Servants of Mary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows Slovakia: 15 September is also a national public holiday Poland: the icon Our...
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Vietnamese Martyrs (redirect from Joseph Canh Luang Hoang)
and Austin, Texas, Denver, Seattle, San Antonio, Arlington, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; and Norcross, Georgia. There are also churches named after individual...
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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (category Politicians from Danville, Virginia)
serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to socialite Robert Gould Shaw II...
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historian Joseph Ellis gives his best guess: Hamilton did fire his weapon intentionally, and he fired first. But he aimed to miss Burr, sending his ball into...
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