in May), nor that he conducted the test, and it does not give a date for the experiment, it becomes embellished as the story that Franklin "discovered electricity"; in 1766, the story first circulates that Franklin flew the kite in June, 1752, without specifying a date (as Franklin had done in other scientific accounts). November 3 – A hurricane destroys the Spanish settlement on Florida's Santa Rosa Island, leaving only two buildings standing; the remaining residents decide to move from the barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico and to start a settlement on the nearby mainland and construct the Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola, which later forms the nucleus of the city of Pensacola, Florida. November 8 – British Governor Hopson of Nova Scotia and French Governor General of New France, the Marquis Duquesne, agree to a free exchange of deserters from each other's armies in Canada, with the understanding that neither side will execute a deserter once returned. November 22 – "Father Le Loutre's War", the war between the British Canadian colonists of Nova Scotia and the indigenous Mi'kmaq (Micmac) tribe halts temporarily when a peace treaty is signed between the warring parties at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Governor Hopson, accompanied by former Governor Cornwallis, signs on behalf of the British and Chief Kopit (Jean-Baptiste Cope), the Sakamaw of the Mi'kmaq, signs on behalf of his people. December 5 – The first presentation of a Shakespearean play in America is performed when a company of players stages The Merchant of Venice in Williamsburg, Virginia. Births January January 1 – Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur, creator of the American flag (d. 1836) January 2 Nicholas Owen, Welsh Anglican priest, antiquarian (d. 1811) Philip Morin Freneau, American poet (d. 1832) January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (d. 1809) January 4 January 6 – Pierre Bouchet, French physician (d. 1794) January 10 – Laurent Jean François Truguet, French admiral (d. 1839) January 13 Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (d. 1799) Sir Philip Anstruther-Paterson, 3rd Baronet, Scottish politician (d. 1808) January 16 Nicolas-François Guillard, French librettist (d. 1814) January 17 George Baylor, officer in the American Continental Army (d. 1784) January 18 Alexander Kurakin, Russian diplomat (d. 1818) John Nash, English architect (d. 1835) Francesco Caracciolo, Neapolitan admiral, revolutionist (d. 1799) Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, British Army general (d. 1825) Louis Dufresne, French ornithologist, taxidermist (d. 1832) January