12

Abigail Collins (Bedell) 75

11

Joanna [Hannah] Emerson (Woolcott) 85
Ann (Lewis) 83 died
Mary Jones (Lewis) 97
Mary Foster (Jones) 98

10

Joseph Seeley 63
William Sherman 89
Sarah Lumbert [Lombard] (Phinney) 82
Samuel Gilbert 59
Lydia Barnes (Gilbert) 56
Samuel Wheeler 68
Joanna Walcott (Wheeler) 61
Joseph Snow 84
Martha Tinkham (Soule) 71
James Washburne 76
Experience Hawes (Sprout) 62
Hannah Smith (Rowland) 97
William Ross 62
Anna Lewis (Ross) 57 died
Joseph Crandall 65
Anna Langworthy (Crandall) 60
John Crandall 66
Jenkins Lewis 59
Isaac Van Deursen 60
Annetje Waldron (Van Deursen) 67
Jonathan Wilmarth 90
Eliezer Fisher 75
John Newton Jr. 81
Robert Searle 81
Rebecca Evans (Searle) 72
Joseph Lewis 76
Hannah Jones (Lewis) 71
Abraham Jaquith 75
Sarah Jones (Jaquith) 67
Enoch Kidder 84
Laughlin Flinn 58
Elizabeth (Flynn) 40
Hugh Laughlin 43
Alexander Gordon 26
Jane Stewart (Gordon) 26
George Martin 18
Sarah (Martin) 16
William Dudley 51
Mary Barbor [Barker] (Dudley) 52
Joseph Conrad Gentzler 39

9

Jeremiah Gifford 67
Mary Wright (Gifford) 65
Daniel Shepherd 60
Nathan Davis 58
Elizabeth Phinney [Finney] (Davis) 58
Peter Abbott 47
Lydia Gilbert (Abbott) 36
Thomas Bannister 33
Mercy Wheeler (Bannister) 30
Jonathan Snow 45
Samuel Tinkham 61
Thomas Perkins 60
Mary Washburne (Perkins) 54
Andreas Killian 46
Joseph Coon [Maccoon] 41
Joseph C Crandall 31
Elizabeth Crandall (Crandall) 30
John Ladd 14
Mary Lewis (Ladd) 26
Daniel Barber 29
Naomi Barber (Barber) 27
Roberdt Sickels 24
Sarah Van Duersen (Sickels) 27
Pricilla Bayley (Wolcott) 72
Ebenezer Jackson 50
Esther Abbott (Jackson) 62
John Brewer 50
Hannah Merriam (Brewer) 47
Benjamin Lewis 43
Elizabeth Jaquith (Lewis) 40
Simon Crosby 59
Abigail Kidder (Crosby) 54 died
John Matson 67
William West 31
Mary Wilson (West) 27
William Guymon 21
Elizabeth Ann Curry (Guymon) 20
James Flynn 28
Thomas Gordon 8
Sarah Wilson (Gordon) 1
Alexander Dudley 21
Winnifred Davis (Dudley) 25
Benjamin Davis 36
Edward Harrell 63
Johann Lorentz Kettering born
Philip W. Gentzler 7
Juliana Wintermeyer 12
Benjamin Hardin 18
Catherine C (Hardin) ~about 9

8

Johannes Clements 63
James Seeley 13
Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 12
Peleg Gifford 29
Abigail Shepherd (Gifford) 23
Judah Bowerman 25
Mary Dillingham (Bowerman) 20
James King 3
Isaac Davis 28
Charity Hall (Davis) 25
Nathan Abbott 6
Mary (Marcy, Mercy) Bannister (Abbott) 5
Samuel Snow 19
Deborah Tinkham [Finkham] (Snow) 20
Ebenezer Perkins 21
Experience Elizabeth Holmes (Perkins) ~about 18
Richard Hayes 39
John Killian 23
Elizabeth Zimmerman (Killian) 18
Benjamin Hockings 33
Rachel Chester (Hockings) 33
Thomas Coons 11
Anna Crandall (Coons) 3
James [Jacob] Williamson 5
Ichabod Perry 26
Ruth Fisher (Perry) 18
Jonathan Wolcott 38
Mary Jackson (Wolcott) 31
John Chadwick 31
Abigail Brewer (Chadwick) 29
David Brewer 16
Olive Allen (Brewer) 16
Sarah Searles (Howlett) 25
Jonathan Lewis 17
Persis Crosby (Lewis) 15
Morris Mattson 33
Mary Cloud (Mattson) 34
John McMinn 34
Isabella (McMinn) 31
Joseph Pierson [Pearson] 20
Mary (Pierson) 20
George Stern 3
Sarah West (Stern) born
Christen Hyldgaard Nielson 65
William Peck ~about born
James Holmes ~about born
Mary Wort (Holmes) ~about born
Benjamin Shakespear ~about 2
Hannah Rushton (Shakespear) ~about 2
John Jones 17
Anne (Jones) 13
Benjamin Davis 17
Rebecca (Davis) 8
Henry Etters 6
Mary (Etters) born

7

Benjamin Lowe 69
Alice Walker (Lowe) 53
Peter Clements 1
Justice Winchell 15
John Savage 10
Aaron Mattson 3
Mary McMinn (Mattson) 10
Thomas Sorensen 49
Anne Jensen (Sorensen) 34
Palle Pallemon Fix 8
Maren Riiber [Riben] (Fix) 3
Jens Munk [Nielsen] 18
Margrethe Jacobsdatter (Munk) 15
Christen Larsen 17
Johanne Thomasdatter (Larsen) 26
Lars Nielsen 9
Karen Christensdatter (Nielsen) 3
Poul Andersen 12
Anne Thomasdatter (Andersen) 1
Erick Jensen 10
Jens Moretensen 1
Mary (Willson) 3

6

Joseph Lowe 11
Hannah Worth (Lowe) 14
John Stirland 6
Maren Nielsen (Thomasen) 1
Jorgen Christensen 12
Zise Marie Mikkelsdatter (Christensen) born

General

Population: 813 Million*

• Entertainment: Writers include Carlo Goldoni (Venetian comedy), Carlo Gozzi Turnadot, Klopstock, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Archibald Bower (Papal history), David Hume (philosophy), Peter Whalley (Shakespeare), Voltaire
  Art includes Thomas Gainsborough "Cornard Wood", Hogarth "Calais Gate"
  Music includes Bach
• Medicine: John Fothergill describes diphtheria
• Science: Leonhard Euler writes about analytical mathematics
  Thomas Lowndes founds chair of astronomy at Cambridge
• Sports: Court of King's Bench rules that "cricket is a legal sport"
• Deaths: Hymn composer Isaac Watts, Mohammed Shad the Great Mogul

Asia

• India: France and England compete for trade with India
• Japan: Samurai plays presented

Europe

• General: Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle – general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as HRE and it leaves the map of Europe as it was before with the exception of Silesia
  Platinum arrives in Europe from South America
• France: Marie-Therese Geoffrin opens salon as meeting place for Parisian men of letters
• Great Britain: End of King George's War
  Holywell Music Room in Oxford opened
  Abolition of hereditary jurisdiction in Scotland
  Famine
• Holy Roman Empire: End of War of Austrian Succession
• Italian States: Pompeii discovered and excavation begins
• Russia: Russian troops march through Bohemia toward the Rhine

Middle East

• General: Death of Mohammed Shad the Great Mogul
• Persia: Shah Rukh grandson of Nadir Shah rules

General

• Business: Franklin retires from printing

South

• South Carolina: Subscription library opened in Charleston
• Virginia: Ohio Company organized