1745 Map of the Parish of Hackney, surveyed by John Rocque,
1745
1748
25.11.1748 Death of
Isaac Watts
at Abney Park, Stoke Newington.
He was buried on 5.12.1748 in the
Dissenters Graveyard, "attended at his request by two
ministers from each of the three dissenting denominations, Independent,
Presbyterian, and Baptist".
He wrote his own inscription for his grave, defining himself as pastor and
successor to Caryl, Owen, Clarkson, and Chauncy. (DNB) His original
memorial was replaced in 1808 with the present Chest tomb of
Portland stone with a sandstone lid. The sides have raised lozenge panels
inscribed ISAAC WATTS D.D. and the lid has the epitaph composed by Watts
describing his "50 years of feeble labours in the Gospel"
and citing texts from St Paul's Epistles.
1750
Balmes House,
Hoxton, was
converted to a private madhouse about 1750.
Hoxton Academy, or
Hoxton Theological College, was established by Samuel
Pike about 1750
[but see below].
It merged with
Highbury College
in 1830.
1750 A room for the sick reserved in the
Hackney
Poorhouse
The
Hospital Database History begins the history
of Hackney Hospital here.
1758
Richard Price
became minister of the
Newington Green Chapel. Price lived in
Newington Green. Hackney Gazette article 6.5.1994 says
"The church became truly Unitarian when the famous Welshman, mathematician
and economist, Dr Richard Price became minister in 1758."
27.4.1759
Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797) born in Spitalfields, London. In 1763 the family moved to a
farm at Epping. In 1765, to Barking, Essex. In 1768, to Beverley in
Yorkshire. They returned to London in
1774
Brooke House,
Clapton (on the road north from Hackney village), converted to a madhouse.
1760