The Countess Granville died on October 7, 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia, who married William Petty, 2ndEarl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.
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JohnGranville, 1st Earl of Bath (29 August1628 – 22 August 1701) was an English royalist statesman, whose highest position was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Granville fought in the English Civil War, on the side of Charles I and in the regiment of his father.
She married George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret and was mother to JohnCarteret, 2ndEarlGranville.
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He was a friend of the Whig leaders Stanhope and Sunderland, took a share in defeating the [JacobitismJacobite]] conspiracy of Bolingbroke on the death of Queen Anne, and supported the passing of the Septennial Act.
The countess Granville died on October 7 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia, who married Lord Shelburne, 1st marquis of Lansdowne.
The title of Granville descended to his son Robert, who died without issue in 1776, when the earldom of this creation became extinct.
Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
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Although the Lord Proprietors had sold their interest to KingGeorge II in 1729, one proprietor, JohnCarteret, 2ndEarlGranville, had not.
His piece was a 60 mile wide piece of land running from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and lying between North latitudes 36° 30' on the north and 35° 34' on the south, the former being current NC/VA border, the latter runnign just above seagrove in Randolf County.
EarlGranville was anxious to populate his territory and approached Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg (also known as Brother Joseph) head of the Moravian Church in Pennsylvania, about the prospect of buying and settling some of Granville’s property.
She married JohnCarteret, 2ndEarl of Granville, son of Sir George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret of Hawnes and Grace Granville, Countess Granville.
She married Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Drogheda, son of Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda and Mary Colley.
Mary Chambre married Edward Brabazon, 2ndEarl of Meath, son of William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, in 1632.
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The name is an Anglicized form of the German "Wachau," the name of a lush green region along the Danube River which the settlers felt the land resembled.
In 1752 a group of Moravians from the Christiansbrunn Agricultural Settlement in Pennsylvania purchased 98,985 acres (400 km² or 156.67 mi²) in middle/western North Carolina, from JohnCarteret, 2ndEarlGranville.
This land was named der Wachau, or Wachovia, in honor of the family estate of Count Zinzendorf, a prominent Moravian leader and bishop.
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The railroad cause was championed by John Motley Morehead, governor of North Carolina from 1840 to 1844, and resident of Greensboro.
EarlGranville was anxious to populate his territory and approached Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg (also known as Brother Joseph) head of the Moravian Church in Pennsylvania, about the prospect of buying and settling some of Granville’s property.
Others believe that a local Quaker, John Newlin, who built a mill on the Haw River, changed the “Sissipahaw” name to “Saxapahaw” because it was easier to pronounce.
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