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Asteroid
1747 Wright, provisional designation 1947 NH, is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered
1747_Wright
American astronomer
February 2011. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). "(1747) Wright". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1747) Wright. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 139. doi:10
William_Hammond_Wright
Topics referred to by the same term
several townships 1747 Wright, an asteroid Wright (lunar crater) Wright (Martian crater) Wright Mons, a mountain on Pluto Pastor Leon Wright, a fictional character
Wright_(disambiguation)
Classification type of a class of astronomical objects
"noisy" or "very noisy", respectively. For example, the Mars-crosser 1747 Wright has an "AU:" class, which means that it is an A-type asteroid, though
Asteroid_spectral_types
astronomer MPC · 1746 1747 Wright 1947 NH William Wright (1871–1959), a pioneering astrophysicist at Lick Observatory MPC · 1747 1748 Mauderli 1966 RA
Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000
Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_1001–2000
American astronomer
discovered: 8 1600 Vyssotsky October 22, 1947 1685 Toro July 17, 1948 1747 Wright July 14, 1947 1863 Antinous March 7, 1948 1951 Lick July 26, 1949 2044
Carl_A._Wirtanen
Crater on the Moon
on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Wright. 1747 Wright, minor planet Wright (Martian crater) Menzel, D. H.; et al. (1971). "Report
Wright_(lunar_crater)
1508 Kemi 1565 Lemaître 1593 Fagnes 1640 Nemo 1656 Suomi 1727 Mette 1747 Wright 1750 Eckert 2035 Stearns 2044 Wirt 2055 Dvořák 2064 Thomsen 2074 Shoemaker
List of Mars-crossing minor planets
List_of_Mars-crossing_minor_planets
United States historic place
Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution. Wright's Tavern was built in 1747 by Ephraim Jones, who operated it until 1751. At the dawn
Wright's_Tavern
2218 Wotho 34703 Wozniakiewicz 690 Wratislavia 19721 Wray 3062 Wren 1747 Wright 33017 Wroński 1765 Wrubel 2705 Wu 2752 Wu Chien-Shiung 10976 Wubbena
List of named minor planets: W
List_of_named_minor_planets:_W
British lawyer and colonial administrator (1716–1785)
entered Gray's Inn in London. In 1747 James was named colonial attorney-general. He also began amassing plantation lands. Wright returned to London as an agent
James_Wright_(governor)
1742 Schaifers 1743 Schmidt 1744 Harriet 1745 Ferguson 1746 Brouwer 1747 Wright 1748 Mauderli 1749 Telamon 1750 Eckert 1751 Herget 1752 van Herk 1753
List of named minor planets: 1000–1999
List_of_named_minor_planets:_1000–1999
Hildian asteroid
v t e Minor planets navigator 1747 Wright 1748 Mauderli 1749 Telamon
1748_Mauderli
Christian monastic denomination
the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c. 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s. They were
Shakers
Hilda asteroid
Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 139. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1747. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "MinorPlanet.info: One Asteroid Information". Asteroid
1746_Brouwer
Baronet in 1837. Sir James Wright, 1st Baronet (1716–1786) Sir James Wright, 2nd Baronet (c. 1747–1816) Sir James Alexander Wright, 3rd Baronet (1799–1837)
Wright baronets of Carolside (1772)
Wright_baronets_of_Carolside_(1772)
Glasse, Hannah (1998) [1747]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-55709-462-9. Glasse, Hannah (1747) The Art of Cookery has
List_of_English_dishes
Brooklyn Indiana University HIL · 3:2 63 km (39 mi) MPC · JPL 1747 Wright 1947 NH Wright July 14, 1947 Mount Hamilton C. A. Wirtanen · 6.4 km (4.0 mi)
List of minor planets: 1001–2000
List_of_minor_planets:_1001–2000
Elected official in the United States
from 1742 through 1747; official term 1747 – 1757. See https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/james-wright-1716-1785 "Heart Attack
South Carolina Attorney General
South_Carolina_Attorney_General
California CA Active MA 1746 Alpha Chi Master Indianola, Iowa IA Active MA 1747 Gamma Eta Master Lakeland, Florida FL Active MA 1748 Beta Epsilon Master
List of Beta Sigma Phi chapters
List_of_Beta_Sigma_Phi_chapters
Founder of the Shakers (1736–1784)
the local insane asylum. In 1758, she joined an English sect founded in 1747 by Jane Wardley and her husband, preacher James Wardley, which was the precursor
Ann_Lee
Lands for Military Purposes, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii March 15, 1937 629 1747 7577 Amending the Instructions to Diplomatic Officers and the Consular Regulations
List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt
List_of_executive_actions_by_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
driver David Brain (born 1964), Zimbabwean cricketer David Brainerd (1718–1747), American missionary David Braley (1941–2020), Canadian businessman and
List of people with given name David
List_of_people_with_given_name_David
Ongoing conflict since 2014
original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022. Philp, Catherine; Wright, Oliver; Brown, Larissa (22 February 2022). "Putin sends Russian tanks into
Russo-Ukrainian_war
British courtier
1814), styled The Honourable Thomas Brudenell until 1747 and known as the Lord Bruce between 1747 and 1776, was a British courtier. Born Thomas Brudenell
Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas_Brudenell-Bruce,_1st_Earl_of_Ailesbury
Type of meat cut
nineteenth century that pork chops became widely popular. Hanna Glasse (1747) makes no mention of pork chops in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
Pork_chop
Catherine Tofts (c. 1685–1756) Santa Stella (c. 1686–1759) Marie Antier (1687–1747) Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht (1692–1786) Anastasia Robinson (c. 1692–1755)
Chronological list of operatic sopranos
Chronological_list_of_operatic_sopranos
lawyer Peter Aaron Van Dorn (1773–1837), American lawyer Peter van Schaack (1747–1832), American lawyer Peter Verniero (born 1959), American judge Peter Vickery
List of people with given name Peter
List_of_people_with_given_name_Peter
– 30 June: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh natural historian and antiquary (b. 1660) 1747 – 2 April: Johann Jacob Dillenius, botanist (b. 1684 in Darmstadt) 1773 –
Timeline_of_Oxford
and wr. Anna Blaman (1905–1960, Netherlands), nv. & poet Susanna Blamire (1747–1794, England), poet Neltje Blanchan (1865–1918, United States), nature wr
List_of_women_writers_(A–L)
Treasury on the 22nd March 1747. The ship arrived back in England on the 28th Feb 1747. Cptn George's Will proved 06 March 1747 Captain Philip D'Auvergne
Scarborough_(1740_EIC_ship)
Name list
British clockmaker Daniel Delaney, American restaurateur Daniel Delany (1747–1814), Irish bishop Daniel Delaveau (born 1952), French politician Daniel
List of people with given name Daniel
List_of_people_with_given_name_Daniel
Student-led demonstrations in China
Policy". International Migration Review. 46 (2): 456–482. doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2012.00893.x. ISSN 0197-9183. Archived from the original on 17 October
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
well-documented case of autism is that of Hugh Blair of Borgue, as detailed in a 1747 court case in which his brother successfully petitioned to annul Blair's
History_of_autism
Central figure in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua
" Baroque composer Georg Frideric Handel composed the oratorio Joshua in 1747. Composer Franz Waxman composed an oratorio Joshua in 1959. Marc-Antoine
Joshua
Wardley, Jane (fl. 1747–1770), a founder of the Shakers
members of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers. However, around 1747 Wardley began to have visions from God telling her to go about her town teaching
Jane_Wardley
American soldier and pioneer (1747–1824)
Ezekiel Polk (December 7, 1747 – August 31, 1824) was an American soldier, pioneer and the paternal grandfather of President James K. Polk. Ezekiel Polk
Ezekiel_Polk
French Royal Army officer (1725–1807)
Bavaria, and on the Rhine during the War of the Austrian Succession. By 1747, he had attained the rank of colonel. He took part in the Siege of Maastricht
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur,_comte_de_Rochambeau
English painter (1747–1806)
William Tate (1747 – 2 June 1806) was an English portrait painter who was a pupil and friend of Joseph Wright of Derby. Tate was born in 1747 at Gawber Hall
William_Tate_(painter)
Country in Central and South Asia
Durrānī Afghans, the Sadūzāʾī Durrānī polity that came into being in 1160 / 1747 was not called Afghanistan in its own day. The name became a state designation
Afghanistan
Buddhist Studies Review. 13 (2): 204–211. doi:10.1558/bsrv.v13i2.14940. ISSN 1747-9681. Palladino, D. J. (September 28, 2006). "Peony Dreams". The Santa Barbara
List_of_American_Buddhists
Abrahamic monotheistic religion
M. (2000). Guide to Islamist Movements. M.E. Sharpe. p. 79. ISBN 0-7656-1747-1. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2010
Islam
southern Ontario. IAU · 10066 10067 Bertuch 1989 AL6 Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747–1822), a German author and bookseller. JPL · 10067 10068 Dodoens 1989 CT2
Meanings of minor-planet names: 10001–11000
Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_10001–11000
American planter, slave holder, lawyer, soldier and politician
III (1692–1746) Augustine Washington (1694–1743) Mildred Washington (1698–1747) Lawrence died at the age of 38 in February 1698, and was interred in the
Lawrence Washington (1659–1698)
Lawrence_Washington_(1659–1698)
British mathematical instrument maker
Thomas Wright (1693-1767) was a British mathematical instrument maker working in London in the early 18th century. He was appointed "Mathematical Instrument
Thomas Wright (mathematical instrument maker)
Thomas_Wright_(mathematical_instrument_maker)
1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763
List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1808
List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom_from_1808
British politician (c. 1747–1795)
William Drake (c. 1747 – 18 May 1795) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1795. Drake was the son of William Drake
William_Drake_(1747–1795)
1948 U.S. segregationist political party
Implications in the Deep South". Politics & Policy. 33 (4): 754–769. doi:10.1111/j.1747-1346.2005.tb00221.x. Retrieved April 25, 2023. Ragan, Fred D. (April 1, 1995)
Dixiecrat
Biesinger 2006, p. 510. Mineau 2004, p. 109. Williamson 2006, p. 109. Wright 2009, p. 110. Tague 2011, p. 28. Wood 2014, p. 35. Frankel 2004, p. 14.
List_of_German_field_marshals
Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696, France), correspondent Anna Seward (1747–1809, England), poet Anna Sewell (1820–1887, England), nv.; Black Beauty
List_of_women_writers_(M–Z)
French under La Bourdonnais vs British under Peyton 6 July Action of 6 July 1747 14 May First Battle of Cape Finisterre British under Anson French under de
List_of_naval_battles
Shrine located in the Khanyar quarter in downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir
is first mentioned in the Waqi'at-i-Kashmir (Story of Kashmir, published 1747), also known as the Tarikh Azami (History by Azam) by the Khwaja Muhammad
Roza_Bal
the Sea" 1744. "Farmer Giles" 1745. "Reason Why" 1746. "The Hungry Army" 1747. "Cod Banging" 1748. "No record" 1749. "Miner's Dream of Home" 1750. "No
List of folk songs by Roud number
List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number
Museum in Arbigland, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Jerauld Wright and Sir Nigel Henderson, RN, spearheaded the effort to restore the Scottish birthplace of John Paul Jones back to its original 1747 condition
John Paul Jones Cottage Museum
John_Paul_Jones_Cottage_Museum
Major-General John Price (died November 1747) was an officer of the British Army. He was the younger son of John Price of Tiptree in Essex, by his wife
John Price (British Army officer)
John_Price_(British_Army_officer)
and film director Mary Brough (1863–1934), English actress Mary Bulkley (1747 or 1748–1792), English actress and dancer Mary Cadorette (born 1957), American
List of people with given name Mary
List_of_people_with_given_name_Mary
translator Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (1955–), British writer William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP (1751–1816), Irish playwright
List_of_Old_Harrovians
by Arabia Petrea on the south; and by the Mediterranean Sea on the west" 1747: The modern Gazetteer: "Palestine, a part of Asiatic Turkey, is situated
Timeline of the name Palestine
Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine
Evolutionary process
& Dietetics. 64 (Supplement 4): S102–S107. doi:10.1111/j.1747-0080.2007.00194.x. ISSN 1747-0080. McBroom, Patricia (June 14, 1999). "Meat-eating was
Human_evolution
D'Ewes Coke (1747 – 12 April 1811) was rector of Pinxton and South Normanton in Derbyshire, a colliery owner and philanthropist. He married Hannah, heiress
D'Ewes_Coke
Car manufacturer
stands today. (see Bakers Lookout Peter Studebaker's 1740 home website) In 1747, Peter Studebaker built a road across his properties, which became known
Studebaker
United States historic place
Historic Landmark in 1974. The Shakers were originally located in England in 1747, in the home of Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784). They developed from the religious
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Sabbathday_Lake_Shaker_Village
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
(1980), p. 69. Mackey (1996), pp. 215, 264–265. Keddie (2003), pp. 201–207. Wright, Robin (2000) "The Last Great Revolution Turmoil and Transformation in Iran"
Iranian_Revolution
American Founding Father and merchant (1721–1783)
They had eight children, including: Jane Contee Hanson (1747–1781), who married Philip Thomas (1747–1815) Peter Contee Hanson (1748–1776), who died in the
John_Hanson
Autoimmune disease of skin and muscle
"Inflammatory muscle diseases". The New England Journal of Medicine. 372 (18): 1734–1747. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1402225. PMID 25923553. S2CID 37761391. Trybuch A, Tarnacka
Dermatomyositis
Natural disaster in Nigeria
(ahead-of-print): 180–197. doi:10.1108/SRJ-05-2024-0354. hdl:10419/306763. ISSN 1747-1117. A.F. Van Loon, G. Laaha. Hydrological drought severity explained by
Natural_disasters_in_Nigeria
Protein encoded by the TCHH gene in mammals
doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12667301. PMID 1431214. Medland SE, Nyholt DR, Painter JN, McEvoy BP, McRae AF, Zhu G, Gordon SD, Ferreira MA, Wright MJ, Henders AK
Trichohyalin
Former gateway in Whitehall, London
engravings, including an engraving made by George Vertue in 1725 and published in 1747 in Vol. I of Vetusta Monumenta. The gate was a rectangular building of three
Holbein_Gate
American Founding Father and politician (1743–1799)
Biography Online, February 2000. Older sources give Duer's year of birth as 1747. "DUER, William - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical
William Duer (Continental congressman)
William_Duer_(Continental_congressman)
Species of bird
in Indian, Pakistani and Nepali poetry.[additional citation(s) needed] In 1747, the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description
Asian_koel
Single yellow-hued star in the constellation Cetus
Wittenmyer, R. A.; o'Toole, S.; Horner, J.; Bailey, J.; Carter, B. D.; Wright, D. J.; Salter, G S; Pinfield, D (2013). "Signals embedded in the radial
Tau_Ceti
American colonial
Spaulding Robert K. Coe (1880 — 1952), m. Vera Christensen Abigail Coe (1702 — 1747), m. John Guthrie Sarah Guthrie (1744 — 1792), m. Reuben Murray Aurora Murray
Robert_Coe_(colonist)
Superfamily of primates
accused him of "impiety". In a letter to Johann Georg Gmelin dated 25 February 1747, Linnaeus wrote: It is not pleasing to me that I must place humans among
Ape
Earl of Middlesex George Lyttelton Henry Bilson Legge John Campbell 23 June 1747 Henry Pelham (First Lord & Chancellor of the Exchequer) George Lyttelton
List of lords commissioners of the Treasury
List_of_lords_commissioners_of_the_Treasury
Microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in the Earth's atmosphere
Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 150 (6): 661–676. doi:10.1007/s00418-018-1747-9. PMC 6267411. PMID 30390118. Li, CH; Tsai, ML; Chiou, HC; Lin, YC; Liao
Particulate_matter
1950–1953 conflict in Korean Peninsula
Hickey, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, and Major General Edwin K. Wright met in Tokyo to plan strategy countering the Chinese intervention; they
Korean_War
81°44′46″W / 41.274°N 81.746°W / 41.274; -81.746 (Hinckley (Jul. 8, EF1)) 1743–1747 1.57 mi (2.53 km) 200 yd (180 m) $20,000 A house received minor roof damage
List of United States tornadoes from June to July 2014
List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_June_to_July_2014
Welsh landowner and diarist
the first from 30 March 1734 to 8 June 1743, and the second from 1 August 1747 to 28 September 1760. Every day he recorded his impression of the weather
William_Bulkeley_(diarist)
American actress (1911–1989)
of Lucille Ball". Rootsweb.com. Retrieved October 6, 2012. "Isaac Ball (1747-?)". Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Lucille Desiree Ball (1911–1989) was
Lucille_Ball
International cycling contest
and Tobago 11–13 November 2022 CL2 Keirin Kwesi Browne Tony García Lamin Wright Dahlia Palmer Tachana Dalger Claudia Baró Elimination Race Jamol Eastmond
2022–23 UCI Track Cycling season
2022–23_UCI_Track_Cycling_season
Score from a test designed to assess intelligence
Educational Research Review. 20: 55–67. doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2016.11.005. ISSN 1747-938X. Stough, C.; Kerkin, B.; Bates, T. C.; Mangan, G. (1994). "Music and
Intelligence_quotient
Hebrew ethno-religious group in Canaan during the Iron Age
Iranian Mandaeans Population". Iranian Journal of Public Health. 48 (9): 1746–1747. ISSN 2251-6085. PMC 6825671. PMID 31700835. Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1987)
Israelites
Culinary traditions of England
" Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery, first published in 1747, contains what Dickson Wright calls a "famous recipe" which describes how "To make a currey
English_cuisine
Virginia politician (1647–1715)
Virginia to his youngest, brothers, Thomas, Hon. (1690–1750) and Henry (1691–1747), for "an annual rent of one peppercorn only, payable on Christmas Day".
Richard_Lee_II
American general (1863-1943)
William Mason Wright (September 24, 1863 – August 16, 1943) was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of lieutenant general
William_M._Wright
Study of fundamental reality
(2006). "Truthmakers". Philosophy Compass. 1 (2): 186–200. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00018.x. Romero, Gustavo E. (2018). Scientific Philosophy. Springer
Metaphysics
of about 90 symphonies Felice Alessandri (1747–1798), Italian composer of 6 symphonies Leopold Koželuch (1747–1818), Czech composer of about 30 symphonies
List_of_symphony_composers
Inflammatory bowel disease that causes ulcers in the colon
(10). Informa UK Limited: 943–955. doi:10.1080/17474124.2019.1681974. ISSN 1747-4124. PMID 31648574. S2CID 204891274. Desai J, Elnaggar M, Hanfy AA, Doshi
Ulcerative_colitis
(1727–1805), porcelain maker. Jean Pons, London goldsmith. Henri de Portal (1690–1747), paper maker. Robert Riviere (1808–1882), English bookbinder, uncle of Briton
List of people with Huguenot ancestry
List_of_people_with_Huguenot_ancestry
Wright Brigadier Arthur John Wright (1888— ) Brigadier John Wright Brigadier Maurice Vernon Wright (1901— ) Brigadier-General Wallace Duffield Wright
List of British generals and brigadiers
List_of_British_generals_and_brigadiers
Society for Astronomical Sciences. 34: 83. Bibcode:2015SASS...34...83H. Wright, K. O. (1 April 1977). "The System of VV Cephei Derived from an Analysis
List_of_largest_stars
Cricket MP for East Grinstead (1734–1742; 1761–1765), Sussex (1742–1747), and Old Sarum (1747–1754) Member of the House of Lords John Sackville, 3rd Duke of
List of sportsperson-politicians
List_of_sportsperson-politicians
Governor of colonial Maryland
Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752. The Ogle family was quite prominent for many centuries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Samuel_Ogle
List of coups and coup attempts
of Iran. 1744: Beylerbey of Fars province's rebelled against Nader Shah. 1747: Nader Shah was assassinated in support of Adel Shah. 1748: Ebrahim Afshar
List of coups and coup attempts by country
List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts_by_country
History of Native American people
divisions contributed to the Choctaw Civil War, which was fought between 1747 and 1750, with the pro-French eastern division emerging victorious. After
History_of_the_Choctaw
Highest political and religious office in Iran
Announces Second Extension of Voting," Reuters, 23 October 1998. quoted in Wright, Robin (2001). The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in
Supreme_Leader_of_Iran
Mark-Anthony Turnage [pupils] Nancy Zeltzman this teacher's teachers Schulz (1747–1800) studied with teachers including Johann Kirnberger. John Samuel Charles
List of music students by teacher: R to S
List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_R_to_S
Christ's Second Appearing was founded by Jane Wardley, Ann Lee, and Lucy Wright in 1747. At present, one active Shaker community remains, the Sabbathday Lake
List of Christian denominations
List_of_Christian_denominations
International agreement on the nuclear program of Iran
which led to another S.C. resolution. Four more S.C. resolutions followed: 1747 (March 2007), 1803 (March 2008), 1835 (September 2008), and 1929 (June 2010)
Iran_nuclear_deal
Two types of knowledge, justification, or argument
Debates and Developments". Philosophy Compass. 3 (3): 436–450. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00136.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service
A_priori_and_a_posteriori
1747 WRIGHT
1747 WRIGHT
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : origin uncertain; probably from an unidentified English place name formed with the Old Norse element by ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.Greenfield Larrabee was a mariner who arrived in New Haven, CT, from England in 1647.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Hillary.William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Newport, RI, in 1727.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from Middle English ambler ‘walker’, ‘steady-paced horse or mule’ (ultimately from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’), probably applied to someone with a steady, easy-going temperament. Reaney suggests that it may have been a facetious nickname for a fuller.Richard Ambler is recorded in MA in 1639, in the New Haven Colony by 1647, and still living in CT in 1700. Many bearers are descended from William Ambler, who was mayor of Doncaster in 1717, at least one of whose sons settled in VA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful person, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French enveisié ‘playful’, ‘merry’ (Old French envoisié, past participle of envoisier ‘to sport, enjoy oneself’).John Veazey came from England to MD in the late 17th century. Thomas Ward Veazey (b. 1774) was a MD legislator and planter.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English wryhta/wyrhta, WRIGHT means "craftsman."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English; the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), an army officer from Leeds Castle, Kent, England, first came to VA in 1735 and settled on maternal estates there as a proprietor in 1747.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name, from a reduced form of the Oxfordshire place name Ambrosden, which is composed of an Old English personal name Ambre + Old English dūn ‘hill’.Isaac Amsden was in Plymouth Colony in 1647; he died in Cambridge, MA, in 1659.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Holyoak.Edward Holyoke emigrated from England and settled in Lynn, MA, in 1638. His descendants include Rev. Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769, and other prominent educators.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Old Norse pá ‘peacock’ (see Peacock). This surname is also established in Ireland.Poe is a common surname found in the 17th and 18th centuries in VA and SC. The ancestors of the poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) were of Scotch-Irish descent, having emigrated from Ireland to Lancaster Co., PA, in about 1748.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic or metronymic from Eade.The inventor Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, OH, came from a Canadian family first established in North America by John Edison, a loyalist during the American Revolution, who served under the British General Richard Howe and went into exile in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War.
Surname or Lastname
English (common in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders)
English (common in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders) : Middle English nickname for someone who was strong in the arm.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Labhradha Tréan ‘strong O’Lavery’ or Mac Thréinfhir, literally ‘son of the strong man’, both from Ulster.This is a very common surname in North America. It was brought to PA, NJ, and NH in the early 18th century by several different families of northern Irish and northern English Protestants. One such was James Armstrong, who emigrated from Fermanagh to Cumberland Co., PA, in 1745; another was John Armstrong (1720–95), who settled in Carlisle, PA, in about 1748. The Cumberland Valley of PA early became the most concentrated area of Scotch-Irish immigration in America.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Woolcot in Somerset, possibly so named from Middle English wolle ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’.Henry Wolcott (1578–1655), clothier, came from Tolland, Somerset, England, and settled in Windsor, CT, in 1636. His grandson Roger (1679–1767) was colonial governor of CT; his great-grandson Oliver (1726–1797) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and the West Midlands, all so called from Old English scīr ‘bright’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.William Shirley (1694–1771) was born in Sussex, England, and came to MA in 1731. He rose in the colonial service, was appointed governor in 1741, and was responsible for the British capture of the French fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1745.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Woolsey.Americanized spelling of Dutch Wiltse.Hendrick Wiltsee’s son Hendrick, born in 1746, spelled his surname Willse in adult life.
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English
English : patronymic from Wright.
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English
English : probably a variant of Mander.Belcher Manter is recorded in Plymouth, MA, in 1657. John Manter (1658–1744), possibly a son of Belcher, was the founder of a family associated with Martha’s Vineyard.
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English
English : variant of Waldie.German : habitational name for someone from any of several places in Pomerania and Brandenburg called Waldow.Cornelius Waldo was living in Ipswich, MA, in 1647. Samuel Waldo (1695–1759) was born in Boston and became a land speculator in ME.
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English
English : from the Old Danish personal name Wraghi.One of the leading figures in colonial Charlestown, SC, during the early 18th century was Samuel Wragg (1714–77), who was made a baron for his services to the colony and the crown; as a Loyalist, he was banished from the colony in 1777.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place, probably in Lincolnshire. The surname has died out in the British Isles but thrives in the U.S.This name is recorded in Ipswich, MA, in 1678, and the marriage of Mary Elithorp is recorded in Boston, MA, in 1727.
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Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Songs of God
Girl/Female
Tamil
Daughter-in-law of Aditi
Female
Egyptian
, an uncertain goddess.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Another name for Goddess Laxmi, Good start
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Hayley, HALEIGH means "hay field."
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Force
Boy/Male
Tamil
Handsome
Girl/Female
Tamil
Rishi gautama’s wife, Woman rescued by Lord Rama, Night (Wife of sage Gautama, who was turned into a stone and later became free from curse by the touch of Rama)
Boy/Male
Hindu
Who can command An elephant
Boy/Male
Egyptian
God of fertility.
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1747 WRIGHT
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n.
One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
n.
A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
n.
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
n.
A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.
n.
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
n.
One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.
n.
A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.
n.
One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
n.
A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
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Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.