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Philip Minis
Philip Minis (July 11, 1734 – March 6, 1789) was an American Jews, Jewish merchant, and the first white male born in the colony of Savannah, Georgia, Savannah, Province of Georgia. He went on to become paymaster to the Continental Army in Georgia during the American Revolutionary War, in addition to being an advisor to French and continental forces. His name appears in the Journals of the Continental Congress. Abram "Bob" Minis, a prominent 20th-century figure in Savannah, was a great-great-grandson of Minis. Early life and career Minis was born on July 11, 1734, the year following his parents' arrival in the Savannah colony after the Jews, Jewish family emigrated from England. The third child of nine of Abraham Minis (born 1694), Abraham and Abigail Minis (after sisters Leah and Esther), he was the first white male born in the colony. He married Judith Polock, of Newport, Rhode Island, on July 20, 1774. They had five children. One of them, Isaac Minis, Isaac (1780–1856), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Britain, British British America, colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's Georgia (U.S. state)#Major cities, fifth-most-populous city, with a 2024 estimated population of 148,808. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia's List of metropolitan areas in Georgia (U.S. state), third-largest, had an estimated population of 431,589 in 2024. Savannah attracts millions of visitors each year to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings. These include the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Minis (physician)
Philip Minis (January 28, 1805 – November 27, 1855) was a 19th-century American physician. He was an assistant surgeon in the United States Army, later promoted to major. Either side of this, he was involved in a notable duel in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked. He was found not guilty in the ensuing murder trial. Life and career Minis was born in 1805, in Savannah, to Isaac Minis and Dinah Cohen. One of his siblings, Abram Minis, became a prominent merchant in Savannah. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824. Minis was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the United States Army on April 12, 1826. He was promoted to major in 1836. On May 16, 1836, Minis married Sarah Augusta Livingston (1807–1892) of New York, daughter of John Swift and Anna M. M. Thompson. They had the following children together: Alice Henrietta (born 1837), Leila (1847), Charles Spalding, Annie, Mary Lela, Philip Henry, John Livingston and Augusta Medora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of Georgia (U
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Businesspeople From Savannah, Georgia
A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) to generate cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital to fuel economic development and growth. History Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a social class in medieval Italy. Between 1300 and 1500, modern accounting, the bill of exchange, and limited liability were invented, and thus, the world saw "the first true bankers", who were certainly businesspeople. Around the same time, Europe saw the " emergence of rich merchants." This "rise of the merchant class" came as Europe "needed a middleman" for the first time, and these "burghers" or "bourgeois" were the people who played this role. Renaissance to Enlightenment: Rise of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1789 Deaths
Events January–March * January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution. * January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential election and House of Representatives elections are held. * January 9 – Treaty of Fort Harmar: The terms of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) and the Treaty of Fort McIntosh, between the United States Government and certain native American tribes, are reaffirmed, with some minor changes. * January 21 – The first American novel, ''The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth'', is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. The anonymous author is William Hill Brown. * January 23 – Georgetown University is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (part of modern-day Washington, D.C.), as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. * January 29 – In Vietnam, Emperor Quang Trung crushes the Chinese Qing forces in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1734 Births
Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America. * February 16 – The Ostend Company, established in 1722 in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) to compete for trade in the West Indies (the Caribbean islands) and the East Indies (south and southeast Asia), ceases business as part of the agreement by Austria in the Second Treaty of Vienna. * March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River in the British Colony of Georgia. April–June * April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (the next time is in 1886). * May 15 – Prince Charles of Spain (later King Charles III) becomes the new King of Naples and Sicily, five days after his arrival in Naples. * May 25 – Spanish forces under the command of José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minis Family
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Minis may refer to: * Miniș (other), the name of several places and rivers in Romania * Minis (surname), a Jewish surname (with a list of people of this name) See also * Mini (other) The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 to 2000. Mini may also refer to: Vehicles *Mini (marque), an English automotive marque, subsidiary of German carmaker BMW, successor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Street
Bull Street is a major street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Named for Colonel William Bull (governor), William Bull (1683–1755), it runs from Bay Street (Savannah, Georgia), Bay Street in the north to Derenne Avenue (part of Georgia State Route 21, State Route 21) in the south. It is around 3.40 miles in length, not including the section interrupted by Forsyth Park. It is the center of a National Historic Landmark District. Savannah City Hall sits opposite the northern end of Bull Street, on Bay Street. Bull Street goes around five of Squares of Savannah, Georgia, Savannah's 22 squares. They are (from north to south): *Johnson Square (Savannah, Georgia), Johnson Square *Wright Square (Savannah, Georgia), Wright Square *Chippewa Square (Savannah, Georgia), Chippewa Square *Madison Square (Savannah, Georgia), Madison Square *Monterey Square (Savannah, Georgia), Monterey Square A memorial in the Oglethorpe Avenue median marks what is today known as the Bull Street Ceme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Mickve Israel
Congregation Mickve Israel (transliterated from Hebrew language, Hebrew as "Congregation for the Hope of Israel") is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 East Gordon Street, Monterey Square (Savannah, Georgia), Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, in the United States. The site also contains a Jewish museum, Jewish history museum. Organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733, it is List of the oldest synagogues in the United States, one of the oldest congregations in the United States. The current synagogue was consecrated in 1878, completed in the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival-style. The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and is a contributing property of the Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia), Savannah Historic District. The congregati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wright (governor)
James Wright (8 May 1716 – 20 November 1785) was a British lawyer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Georgia from 1760 to 1782, when the American War of Independence led to the British recognising Georgia's independence as part of the United States. Biography James Wright was born in London to Robert Wright Jr, son of Sir Robert Wright, Lord Chief Justice of England. In 1730 Robert Wright, James Wright's father, accompanied Robert Johnson to the Province of South Carolina and served as its Chief Justice until 1739. James followed soon after and began the practice of law in Charleston. On 14 August 1741 he 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 for the South Carolina colony in 1757. On one of his England visits, or on all of them, he stayed with his cousin William Rugge, the ancestor of the Rugge-Price baronets, on Conduit S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the List of municipalities in South Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley River, Ashley, Cooper River (South Carolina), Cooper, and Wando River, Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,227 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The population of the Charleston metropolitan area, South Carolina, Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley County, South Carolina, Berkeley, Charleston County, South Carolina, Charleston, and Dorchester County, South Carolina, Dorchester counties, was estimated to be 849,417 in 2023. It ranks as the South Carolina statistical areas, third-most populous metropolitan area in the state and the Metropolitan statistical area, 71st-most populous in the U.S. It is the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina, Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paymaster
A paymaster is someone appointed by a group of buyers, sellers, investors or lenders to receive, hold, and dispense funds, commissions, fees, salaries (remuneration) or other trade, loan, or sales proceeds within the private sector or public sector. Specific titles within the British government are Paymaster of the Forces, Paymaster General and Paymaster of Pensions. Purpose The primary purpose of a paymaster is to receive fees in escrow by buyers in a large transaction, and disburse to the sellers and brokers on the transaction. A paymaster is usually, but not required to be, a lawyer (also known as a 'lawyer paymaster'). When dealing with commission payments on contracts dealing with large amounts of money (such as oil, gas, steel, iron, gold, MTNs, VGs, t-strips, and other instruments), most banks in the United States are very wary of handling such large amounts of money. In addition, most buyers and sellers of such transactions want to place the money with a neutral third pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
