1814. About 200 British marines and sailors landed at Saybrook, in Connecticut, spiked the cannon and destroyed several vessels, and escaped in the night to their shipping.
1817. The county of Tompkins in the state of New York erected.
1835. James Brown, an American statesman, died. He rose to a high rank at the bar, and was several years minister to France.
1836. William Godwin, an English novelist, and political and miscellaneous writer, died, aged 81. He commenced his career as a dissenting minister, which station he relinquished to gain a subsistence
by literature. His works are numerous, and acquired him much celebrity, though tinctured more or less with skepticism.
1844. Morgan Lewis, a distinguished American military officer and statesman, died at New York, aged 90. He served with fidelity under the colonial government, and with honor and gallantry in the war of the revolution, and in the war of 1812. He held various important civil offices from 1791 to 1810.
1849. Irvine Shubrick, an American naval officer, died. He had been thirty-five years in the service, and fought under Decatur and Downes. He commanded the expedition against the island of Sumatra in 1832, which captured Qualla Battoo, and broke up a horde of pirates who molested vessels there.
1850. James Emott, a distinguished member of the New York bar, died at Poughkeepsie, aged 80.
1854. All English and French vessels were ordered out of the port of Odessa.
1856. The steamship Adriatic, the largest vessel of the kind that had ever been built, was launched at New York.