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Bazaleel Taft Sr.
Bazaleel Taft Sr.
Other name(s)	Bezaleel Taft
Born	November 3, 1750; Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Died	June 21, 1839 (aged 88); Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Allegiance	United States of America
Service / branch	Continental Army Massachusetts Militia
Years of service	1775-1780
Rank	Captain
Unit	Worcester 9th Company
Commands	Worcester 9th Company
Battles / wars	Battles of Lexington and Concord, American Revolution
Relations	Josiah Taft (father); Lydia Chapin Taft (mother)
Other work	Massachusetts state legislator Massachusetts state senate

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Bazaleel Taft Sr., his first name is also spelled Bezaleel (November 3, 1750 – June 21, 1839), was an American Revolutionary War soldier, captain, and state legislator from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He built the Hon. Bazaleel Taft House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Early life

Bazaleel Taft Sr. was born to Josiah Taft and Lydia Chapin Taft at Uxbridge on November 3, 1750.^[1] He was one of eight children.^[2] Taft grew up in the pre-Revolutionary War period in the Massachusetts colony.

Josiah was a farmer and town clerk.^[2] He had been a member of the Massachusetts General Court, or legislature of the colony in 1753.^[2] A captain, Josiah fought in the French and Indian Wars, and died on September 30, 1756,^[2]^[3] two weeks after burying his son Caleb. Caleb was away at college when he died.^[4] Taft became Josiah and Lydia's eldest surviving son.^[4]

Lydia became the largest landholder in Uxbridge and based upon the principal of "no taxation without representation, she was made a voter by proxy,^[4]^[5]^[6] America's first woman voter.^[4]^[a] On October 30, 1756, an important open town meeting was held to decide whether to support the French and Indian War effort.^[4]^[5] Her vote settled what would otherwise have been a tie. The town would provide financial support for the war.^[5]^[6] Lydia died November 22, 1766.^[7]

Taft descended from Robert Taft Sr. (1640 or before – February 8, 1725) of Braintree, Massachusetts, his great grandfather of the Taft family.^[8] Robert Taft Sr. established his family in Mendon, in what later became the town of Uxbridge, where he built a fort. Robert was a carpenter and a farmer.^[8] William Howard Taft, President of the United States, was from this same family.^[4]

Military service and legislative career

Taft fought in the American Revolutionary War.^[9] He mustered in to Captain Samuel Read's Company in Uxbridge on April 19, 1775 as a sergeant. That day, he marched in the Lexington Alarm.^[10]^[11] Adjunct 3rd Worcester Company regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Tyler. He was engaged December 8, 1776, and the regiment marched to Providence, Rhode Island. He was discharged January 29, 1777. He served as 2nd lieutenant under Captain Edward Segrave's 9th Company, 3rd Worcester Company, regiment of the Massachusetts militia.^[11] He was commissioned January 30, 1778. He was then adjunct to Colonel Benjamin Hawes's regiment. He entered service July 31, 1778, the regiment marched to Rhode Island, and he was discharged September 12, 1778. Taft and Abner Taft asked to resign from their commissions to return to Uxbridge due to redistricting, which was approved by Colonel Nathan Tyler. He was also Captain of the 9th company of Tyler's 3rd Worcester Company, commissioned April 14, 1780. Based on an alarm, Taft marched to Tiverton, Rhode Island, on July 27, 1780.^[11]

Taft was a loyal federalist.^[9] Taft served in the state legislature as a representative and in the senate for over 30 years.^[8] His son, Bezaleel Taft Jr, would also serve in the Massachusetts General Court, and in the state Senate.^[8]

In 1817, Taft was a presidential elector for the Worcester district.^[12]

Personal life

Taft was first married to Abigail Taft, and they had a daughter Eunice, born January 28, 1775,^[13] who married Deacon Phinehas Chapin.^[8] Abigail died on August 12, 1775.^[14]

Taft next married Sarah Richardson on January 2, 1777.^[15] They had a son, Bezaleel Taft, Jr (1780-1846), who was a lawyer and legislator^[8] and a daughter Chloe, born March 10, 1793,^[1] who married Joseph Thayer, Esq.^[8] The Thayers later lived in the Hon. Bazaleel Taft House that her father built.^[16] Chloe was the mother of Henry Chapin's two wives. Taft and Sarah had children who died young, at least one other son and one daughter.^[9] Sarah died on April 27, 1809.^[17]

Taft became the first church moderator of the First Congregational Society when it was established in 1797.^[10] Hon. Bazaleel Taft Sr. died at the age of 89 on June 21, 1839, at Uxbridge.^[18]

Hon. Bazaleel Taft House

The Hon. Bazaleel Taft House, built in 1794, is a Georgian architectural style house, that is today a restaurant south of Uxbridge center.^[19] A Hessian sword was embedded in the wall of this home, as partial evidence that British Hessian forces, once passed through the historic Blackstone River Valley during the American Revolutionary War.^[20]

Notes

^ The event was recorded by a book written by Henry Chapin and edited by Rushton Dashwood Burr, but it is not recorded in the town's records. She was recognized as America's first woman vote when Route 146A was designated the Lydia Taft Highway by the Massachusetts legislature in 2004.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Baldwin 1916, p. 150.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Schutz, John A. (1997). Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary. UPNE. pp. 79, 353. ISBN 978-1-55553-304-5.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 406.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chuss, Linda (March 14, 2023). "Mendon's Lydia Taft: America's first female voter or was she?". Milford Free Press. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Chapin, Henry (1881). Address delivered at the Unitarian church, in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1864. Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of C. Hamilton.
^ ^a ^b Sprague 1927, p. 20.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 407.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The Taft Family". Worcester Daily Spy. Worcester, Massachusetts. August 13, 1874. Retrieved April 8, 2024 – via National Endowment for the Humanities.
^ ^a ^b ^c Leonard, Lewis Alexander (1920). "Life of Alphonso Taft". Hawke publishing Company (incorporated). pp. 241, 261–263. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Sprague 1927, p. 23.
^ ^a ^b ^c Secretary of the Commonwealth (1907). Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War. Vol. 15. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers. pp. 350–351.
^ Wall, Caleb A. (Caleb Arnold) (1877). Reminiscences of Worcester. Worcester, Massachusetts: Tyler & Seagrave. p. 371.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 152.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 403.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 313.
^ Sprague 1927, p. 45.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 409.
^ Baldwin 1916, p. 404.
^ "Uxbridge Walking Tour". Blackstone Daily. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Bazeley House - Cricket on the Hearth". The Boston Globe. April 25, 1969. p. 19. Retrieved April 9, 2024.

Bibliography

Baldwin, Thomas W. (Thomas Williams) (1916). Vital records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston, Massachusetts: Wright & Potter printing company.
Sprague, Beatrice Putnam, ed. (1927). Uxbridge year by year, 1727-1927. Woonsocket, Rhode Island: E.L. Freeman.

External links

Bezaleel Taft Sr. House, now the Cocke n' Kettle, Historic Corridor

[7] The event was recorded by a book written by Henry Chapin and edited by Rushton Dashwood Burr, but it is not recorded in the town's records. She was recognized as America's first woman vote when Route 146A was designated the Lydia Taft Highway by the Massachusetts legislature in 2004.^[4]

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916150-1] Baldwin 1916, p. 150.

[Schutz-2] Schutz, John A. (1997). Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary. UPNE. pp. 79, 353. ISBN 978-1-55553-304-5.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916406-3] Baldwin 1916, p. 406.

[Chuss-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chuss, Linda (March 14, 2023). "Mendon's Lydia Taft: America's first female voter or was she?". Milford Free Press. Retrieved April 8, 2024.

[Chapin-5] Chapin, Henry (1881). Address delivered at the Unitarian church, in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1864. Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of C. Hamilton.

[FOOTNOTESprague192720-6] Sprague 1927, p. 20.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916407-8] Baldwin 1916, p. 407.

[WDS-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The Taft Family". Worcester Daily Spy. Worcester, Massachusetts. August 13, 1874. Retrieved April 8, 2024 – via National Endowment for the Humanities.

[Leonard-10] Leonard, Lewis Alexander (1920). "Life of Alphonso Taft". Hawke publishing Company (incorporated). pp. 241, 261–263. Retrieved April 9, 2024.

[FOOTNOTESprague192723-11] Sprague 1927, p. 23.

[MSS-12] Secretary of the Commonwealth (1907). Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War. Vol. 15. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers. pp. 350–351.

[13] Wall, Caleb A. (Caleb Arnold) (1877). Reminiscences of Worcester. Worcester, Massachusetts: Tyler & Seagrave. p. 371.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916152-14] Baldwin 1916, p. 152.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916403-15] Baldwin 1916, p. 403.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916313-16] Baldwin 1916, p. 313.

[FOOTNOTESprague192745-17] Sprague 1927, p. 45.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916409-18] Baldwin 1916, p. 409.

[FOOTNOTEBaldwin1916404-19] Baldwin 1916, p. 404.

[walking_tour-20] "Uxbridge Walking Tour". Blackstone Daily. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[21] "Bazeley House - Cricket on the Hearth". The Boston Globe. April 25, 1969. p. 19. Retrieved April 9, 2024.

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-'''Bezaleel Taft Sr.''' (November 3, 1750 – June 21, 1839) was an [[American Revolutionary War]] soldier, Captain and American [[legislator]] from [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts]].
+'''Bazaleel Taft Sr.''', his first name is also spelled '''Bezaleel''' (November 3, 1750 – June 21, 1839), was an [[American Revolutionary War]] soldier, captain, and [[Massachusetts General Court|state legislator]] from [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts]]. He built the [[Hon. Bazaleel Taft House]], which is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
 ==Early life==
+Bazaleel Taft Sr. was born to [[Josiah Taft]] and [[Lydia Taft|Lydia Chapin Taft]] at Uxbridge on November 3, 1750.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=150}} He was one of eight children.<ref name="Schutz" /> Taft grew up in the pre-Revolutionary War period in the [[Massachusetts colony]].
-Bezaleel Taft Sr. was born to [[Lydia Taft|Lydia Chapin Taft]] and [[Josiah Taft]] at Uxbridge on 3 November 1750. He had six siblings. He went to school in Uxbridge and grew up in the immediate pre-Revolutionary War period in the [[Massachusetts colony]]. His mother Lydia Chapin Taft, was [[America's First Woman Voter]] in 1756 when young Bezaleel was just six years old. His father, Captain Josiah Taft, had fought in the [[French and Indian Wars]], and died of natural causes when young Bezaleel just was 6.  His father died immediately prior to his mother's historic vote using her late husband Josiah's proxy in the important [[open town meeting]] Town Election to support the [[French and Indian War]] effort. Josiah had been a member of the [[Massachusetts General Court]], or legislature of the colony in 1753, the year that Bezaleel was just 3 years of age. Bezaleel Taft Sr. was a loyal federalist.
+Josiah was a farmer and town clerk.<ref name="Schutz" /> He had been a member of the [[Massachusetts General Court]], or legislature of the colony in 1753.<ref name="Schutz">{{Cite book |last=Schutz |first=John A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKPU-Drsc_UC&pg=PA353 |title=Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary |date=1997 |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-55553-304-5 |pages=79, 353 |language=en}}</ref> A captain, Josiah fought in the [[French and Indian Wars]], and died on September 30, 1756,<ref name="Schutz" />{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=406}} two weeks after burying his son Caleb. Caleb was away at college when he died.<ref name="Chuss" /> Taft became Josiah and Lydia's eldest surviving son.<ref name="Chuss" />
-==Military service==
-He was a soldier who fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]] and held the rank of captain. He marched in the [[Lexington Alarm]] of April 19, 1775.
+Lydia became the largest landholder in Uxbridge and based upon the principal of "no taxation without representation, she was made a voter by proxy,<ref name="Chuss" /><ref name="Chapin" />{{sfn|Sprague|1927|p=20}} [[America's First Woman Voter|America's first woman voter]].<ref name="Chuss">{{cite news| url=https://www.milfordfreepress.com/2023/03/14/428934/mendon-s-lydia-taft-america-s-first-female-voter-or-was-she- |title=Mendon's Lydia Taft: America's first female voter or was she?| first1=Linda |last1=Chuss |newspaper=Milford Free Press | date=March 14, 2023 |access-date=April 8, 2024 }}</ref>{{efn|The event was recorded by a book written by Henry Chapin and edited by Rushton Dashwood Burr, but it is not recorded in the town's records. She was recognized as America's first woman vote when Route 146A was designated the Lydia Taft Highway by the Massachusetts legislature in 2004.<ref name="Chuss" />}} On October 30, 1756, an important [[open town meeting]] was held to decide whether to support the [[French and Indian War]] effort.<ref name="Chuss" /><ref name="Chapin">{{Cite book |last=Chapin |first=Henry |url=http://archive.org/details/addressdelivered0000chap |title=Address delivered at the Unitarian church, in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1864  |date=1881 |location=Worcester, Massachusetts |publisher=Press of C. Hamilton}}</ref> Her vote settled what would otherwise have been a tie. The town would provide financial support for the war.<ref name="Chapin" />{{sfn|Sprague|1927|p=20}} Lydia died November 22, 1766.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=407}}
-==Marriage and children==
-After fighting in the Revolutionary war, he married Sara Richardson Taft. Their son [[Bezaleel Taft, Jr]] was born 8 September 1780. Their children are listed as Abigail, Bezaleel Taft Jr, Sarah (Sally), Caleb and Chloe Taft.qq
+Taft descended from [[Robert Taft Sr.]] (1640 or before – February 8, 1725) of [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], his great grandfather of the [[Taft family]].<ref name="WDS" /> [[Robert Taft Sr.]] established his family in [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]], in what later became the town of Uxbridge, where he built a fort. Robert was a carpenter and a farmer.<ref name="WDS" /> [[William Howard Taft]], [[President of the United States]], was from this same family.<ref name="Chuss" />
-==Legislative career and family life==
-Bezaleel followed his father's footsteps and was elected to the [[Massachusetts General Court]] after the [[United States]] gained its independence from [[Great Britain]]. He served in the state legislature as a representative and in the senate for over 30 years. His son, Bezaleel Taft Jr, would also serve in the Massachusetts General Court, and in the state Senate. He also served on various state commissions, Boards and the executive council.  Bazaleel Taft's 1794 "[[Georgian architecture|Georgian]]" architectural style home, is today a fine eating establishment south of Uxbridge center.<ref name="walking tour">{{cite web|title=Uxbridge Walking Tour|publisher=Blackstone Daily|url=http://www.blackstonedaily.com/Outdoors&Nature/WTuxbridge.htm|accessdate=2007-10-23|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173128/http://www.blackstonedaily.com/Outdoors%26Nature/WTuxbridge.htm|archivedate=2016-03-03}}</ref> A Hessian sword is embedded in the wall of this home, as partial evidence that [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] "Hessian" Forces, once passed through the historic [[Blackstone River Valley]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The famous [[Taft family]] in America descended from a common ancestor, [[Robert Taft Sr]], Bazaleel Taft Sr.'s great grandfather. [[Robert Taft Sr.]]'s first homestead was in [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]], in what later became the town of Uxbridge. The Taft family is a dynasty in American politics in a number of states, throughout the USA, but especially in [[Ohio]]. [[William Howard Taft]], [[President of the United States]], was from this same family.
+{{Further|The Tafts of Mendon and Uxbridge}}
-Hon. Bezaleel Taft  Sr. died at the age of 89 on June 21, 1839, at Uxbridge after a long and distinguished career in public service.
+==Military service and legislative career==
-==See also==
+Taft fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref name="Leonard" /> He mustered in to Captain Samuel Read's Company in Uxbridge on April 19, 1775 as a sergeant. That day, he marched in the [[Lexington Alarm]].{{sfn|Sprague|1927|p=23}}<ref name="MSS">{{cite book|title=Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War | author=Secretary of the Commonwealth| volume=15|location=Boston |publisher=Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers |year=1907 |pages=350–351 }}</ref> Adjunct 3rd Worcester Company regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Tyler. He was engaged December 8, 1776, and the regiment marched to Providence, Rhode Island. He was discharged January 29, 1777. He served as 2nd lieutenant under Captain Edward Segrave's 9th Company, 3rd Worcester Company, regiment of the Massachusetts militia.<ref name="MSS" /> He was commissioned January 30, 1778. He was then adjunct to Colonel Benjamin Hawes's regiment. He entered service July 31, 1778, the regiment marched to Rhode Island, and he was discharged September 12, 1778. Taft and Abner Taft asked to resign from their commissions to return to Uxbridge due to redistricting, which was approved by Colonel Nathan Tyler. He was also Captain of the 9th company of Tyler's 3rd Worcester Company, commissioned April 14, 1780. Based on an alarm, Taft marched to [[Tiverton, Rhode Island]], on July 27, 1780.<ref name="MSS" />
-*[[Hon. Bazaleel Taft House]]
-*[[Taft family]]
+Taft was a loyal federalist.<ref name="Leonard">{{Cite news |last=Leonard |first=Lewis Alexander |date=1920 |title=Life of Alphonso Taft |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8FYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261 |access-date=2024-04-09 |publisher=Hawke publishing Company (incorporated) |pages=241, 261–263 |language=en}}</ref> Taft served in the state legislature as a representative and in the senate for over 30 years.<ref name="WDS" /> His son, Bezaleel Taft Jr, would also serve in the Massachusetts General Court, and in the state Senate.<ref name="WDS" />
-*[[The Tafts of Mendon and Uxbridge]]
-*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Uxbridge, Massachusetts]]
+In 1817, Taft was a presidential elector for the Worcester district.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wall |first=Caleb A. (Caleb Arnold) |url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924028851117 |title=Reminiscences of Worcester |date=1877 |publisher=Tyler & Seagrave |location=Worcester, Massachusetts |page=371}}</ref>
+==Personal life==
+Taft was first married to Abigail Taft, and they had a daughter Eunice, born January 28, 1775,{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=152}} who married Deacon Phinehas Chapin.<ref name="WDS">{{Cite news |date=August 13, 1874 |title=The Taft Family |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83021205/1874-08-13/ed-1/seq-1/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=Worcester Daily Spy | via=National Endowment for the Humanities | location=Worcester, Massachusetts}}</ref> Abigail died on August 12, 1775.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=403}}
+Taft next married Sarah Richardson on January 2, 1777.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=313}} They had a son, [[Bezaleel Taft, Jr]] (1780-1846), who was a lawyer and legislator<ref name="WDS" /> and a daughter Chloe, born March 10, 1793,{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=150}} who married Joseph Thayer, Esq.<ref name="WDS" /> The Thayers later lived in the [[Hon. Bazaleel Taft House]] that her father built.{{sfn|Sprague|1927|p=45}} Chloe was the mother of [[Henry Chapin]]'s two wives. Taft and Sarah had children who died young, at least one other son and one daughter.<ref name="Leonard" /> Sarah died on April 27, 1809.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=409}}
+Taft became the first church moderator of the First Congregational Society when it was established in 1797.{{sfn|Sprague|1927|p=23}} Hon. Bazaleel Taft  Sr. died at the age of 89 on June 21, 1839, at Uxbridge.{{sfn|Baldwin|1916|p=404}}
+==Hon. Bazaleel Taft House==
+[[File:BazaleelTaftSrHouse 046.jpg|thumb|[[Hon. Bazaleel Taft House]], [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts]], built in 1794, on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Uxbridge, Massachusetts]]]]
+The [[Hon. Bazaleel Taft House]], built in 1794, is a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian architectural style]] house, that is today a restaurant south of Uxbridge center.<ref name="walking tour">{{cite web|title=Uxbridge Walking Tour|publisher=Blackstone Daily|url=http://www.blackstonedaily.com/Outdoors&Nature/WTuxbridge.htm|accessdate=2007-10-23|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173128/http://www.blackstonedaily.com/Outdoors%26Nature/WTuxbridge.htm|archivedate=2016-03-03}}</ref> A Hessian sword was embedded in the wall of this home, as partial evidence that [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian forces]], once passed through the historic [[Blackstone River Valley]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1969-04-25 |title=Bazeley House - Cricket on the Hearth |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-bazeley-house-cricket/145034404/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |work=The Boston Globe |page=19}}</ref>
 ==Notes==
+{{notelist}}
+==References==
 {{Reflist}}
+==Bibliography==
+* {{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924028839509 |title=Vital records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 |last1=Baldwin |first1=Thomas W. (Thomas Williams) |date=1916 |publisher= Wright & Potter printing company |location=Boston, Massachusetts }}
+* {{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/uxbridgeyearbyye00unse |title=Uxbridge year by year, 1727-1927 | editor-last=Sprague|editor-first=Beatrice Putnam  |date=1927 |publisher=E.L. Freeman |location=Woonsocket, Rhode Island }}
 ==External links==
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070822010819/http://www.blackstonerivervalley.com/navigator/towns/cockenkettle.php Bezaleel Taft Sr. House, now the Cocke n' Kettle, Historic Corridor]
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Taft, Bezaleel Sr}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Taft, Bazaleel Sr.}}
 [[Category:Taft family]]
 [[Category:1750 births]]