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1767

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Mar15

U.S. Presidents

Andrew Jackson is born

Future President Andrew Jackson is born in a backwoods region between North and South Carolina to Irish immigrant parents on March 15, 1767. Jackson was essentially an orphan—all but one member of his family were killed during the Revolutionary War—who rose from humble beginnings to become a celebrated soldier and one of the nation’s most influential presidents.

Jul11

U.S. Presidents

John Quincy Adams is born

On July 11, 1767, John Quincy Adams, son of the second U.S. president, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Massachusetts.

John Quincy Adams won his election by a very narrow margin and his presidency marked a return to partisan politics. Despite political gridlock, Adams did oversee the completion of the Erie Canal.

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Oct10

Colonial America

Mason and Dixon draw a line, dividing the colonies

On October 10, 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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