Congress. December 29 – American Revolutionary War: Capture of Savannah – British forces under Archibald Campbell take the city of Savannah, Georgia. Undated The first settlement is made in the area of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, by 13 families under Colonel George Rogers Clark. Phillips Academy is founded by Samuel Phillips Jr. The term thoroughbred is first used in the United States, in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette, to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick. Thomas Kitchin's The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe is published in London. The city of Ulaanbaatar was settled at its present location, having functioned as a mobile monastic settlement since 1639. Births January–April January 1 Tredwell Scudder, American politician (d. 1834) Charles Alexandre Lesueur, French naturalist (d. 1846) January 3 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1861) January 4 Billy J. Clark, American politician (d. 1866) Paolo Polidori, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1847) Jean-Antoine Alavoine, French architect (d. 1834) January 5 – Charles-Guillaume Étienne, French writer (d. 1845) January 6 – Thomas Lincoln, Farmer, Carpenter (d. 1851) January 7 – Anthony Todd Thomson, British dermatologist (d. 1849) January 9 – Thomas Brown, Scottish metaphysician (d. 1820) January 10 – Teodoro Sánchez de Bustamante, Argentine politician (d. 1851) January 11 – Agathon Jean François Fain, French historian (d. 1837) January 12 – William Herbert, British politician (d. 1847) January 13 – Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet, British financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom (d. 1859) January 15 – Joseph Adamy, Nassauian politician (d. 1849) January 16 Teodoro Lechi, Italian general (d. 1866) John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish peer and soldier (d. 1860) January 17 Donald Macdonell, Canadian politician (d. 1861) George Black, Canadian politician, businessman and important shipbuilder in Quebec, during the earlier part of the 19th century (d. 1854) January 18 – George Bellas Greenough, British geologist (d. 1855) January 20 – Louis Antoine François Baillon, French naturalist, collector (d. 1855) January 21 – Jeremiah O'Brien, American politician (d. 1858) January 23 – Alire Raffeneau Delile, French botanist (d. 1850) January 24 – Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, England (d. 1820) January 25 – Matsudaira Norihiro, Japanese daimyō who ruled the Nishio Domain (d. 1839) January 26 Jakob von Washington, Bavarian general (d. 1848)