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Bronze sculpture of James Otis Jr. in front of the Barnstable County Courthouse. James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American Lawyer, political activist, colonial legislator, and early supporter of patriotic causes in Massachusetts Bay Colony at the beginning of the Revolutionary Era.
Many of them were greedy and became extremely wealthy and powerful through their exactions from the poor. The tax collectors were therefore hated by the people. Louis Mandrin was born in 1725 at Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Dauphiné, then a border province. His family was well established in the region, but was no longer as prosperous as in ...
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George Mason's coat of arms. Mason was born in present-day Fairfax County, in the Colony of Virginia, in British America, on December 11, 1725. [1] [2] [3] Mason's parents owned property in Mason Neck, Virginia and a second property across the Potomac River in Maryland, which had been inherited by his mother.
Robert Clive was born at Styche, the Clive family estate, near Market Drayton in Shropshire, on 29 September 1725 to Richard Clive and Rebecca (née Gaskell) Clive. [15] The family had held the small estate since the time of Henry VII and had a lengthy history of public service: members of the family included a Chancellor of the Exchequer of ...
Venice in the 1730s. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Casanova.Giacomo was the first of six children, followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783).
Whether they hid assets in offshore bank accounts or organized an armed rebellion, some of history’s biggest tax cheats are an eclectic bunch and a reminder that one person’s tax cheat can ...
Portrait of Laurens by John Singleton Copley (U.S. National Portrait Gallery NPG.65.45). Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American Founding Father, [1] [2] [3] merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War.