[…]the chaoush informed us, in a solemn and important manner, that we were now approaching to the places where the Turcomans generally lie in wait for caravans,[…]

Jacob Fowle entered his Entention of marriage with Phebe Osgood Feb 4 1738

There's a very useful page for LJers at http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml - but it only works for those friends who have entered their birthdays.

[T]he whole companye or most parte of the Studentꝭ [Studentis] of the same house mette toogether to beginne their Christmas, of wᶜʰ som̃e came to see sports […] others to make sporte wᵗʰall of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, who are by no meanes admitted to be agent's or behoulders of those sports, before themselues haue biñe patient perfourmers of them.