10

Samuel Gilbert 85
Lydia Barnes (Gilbert) 82
Alexander Gordon 52
Jane Stewart (Gordon) 52
George Martin 44 died after this time
Sarah (Martin) 42 died after this time

9

Mary Wright (Gifford) 91
Daniel Shepherd 86 died
Nathan Davis 84
Elizabeth Phinney [Finney] (Davis) 84
Peter Abbott 73
Thomas Bannister 59
Mercy Wheeler (Bannister) 56
Jonathan Snow 71
Samuel Tinkham 87
Andreas Killian 72
Joseph C Crandall 57
John Ladd 40
Daniel Barber 55
Sarah Van Duersen (Sickels) 53
Benjamin Lewis 69
Elizabeth Jaquith (Lewis) 66
William West 57
Thomas Gordon 34
Sarah Wilson (Gordon) 27
John Martin 20
Sarah Simpson (Martin) 20 died after this time
Alexander Dudley 47 died
Winnifred Davis (Dudley) 51 died
Johann Lorentz Kettering 26
Philip W. Gentzler 33

8

Johannes Clements 89
James Seeley 39
Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 38
Peleg Gifford 55
Abigail Shepherd (Gifford) 49
Azor Nash 19
Rhoda (Nash) 19
William Shaw 20
Hannah Gardner (Shaw) 16
James King 29
Elizabeth (King) 25
Isaac Davis 54
Nathan Abbott 32
Mary (Marcy, Mercy) Bannister (Abbott) 31
Samuel Snow 45
Richard Hayes 65
John Killian 49
Elizabeth Zimmerman (Killian) 44
Thomas Coons 37
Anna Crandall (Coons) 29
Joseph Crandall 24
Mary Ladd (Crandall) 22
James [Jacob] Williamson 31
Mary Barber (Williamson) 25
Zachariah Sickels 21
Margit Van Aasdorph (Sickels) 17
Ichabod Perry 52
Ruth Fisher (Perry) 44
Jonathan Wolcott 64
David Brewer 42
Sarah Searles (Howlett) 51
Jonathan Lewis 43
Morris Mattson 59
John McMinn 60
Isabella (McMinn) 57
Joseph Pierson [Pearson] 46
Mary (Pierson) 46
George Stern 29
Sarah West (Stern) 26
Isaiah Curry Guymon 21
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 24
John Gordon 20
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) born
John Dudley 6
Charity Davis (Dudley) 4
Achilles Durham 24
Mary Unica Cates (Durham) 19
Henry Etters 32
Philip Tevebaugh or Devenpaugh 23
Margaret Cansler or Gensler (Tevebaugh) 15

7

Peter Clements 27
Anna Seeley (Clements) 19
Annanias Owen 20
Lucy (Owen) 16
John Savage 36
Joseph Smith 9
Noah Gifford 15
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 16
Lucy Shaw (Nash) born
William [James] Braffett 2
Reuben Davis 10
Mary or Polly Abbott (Davis) 7
Samuel Snow 24
Betty Perkins (Snow) 18
John Smith 11
Mary (Smith) 7
James Walsh 9
Mary (Walsh) 5
Philemon Hayes 25
Philip Killian 8
M Hocking[s] (Killian) 4
Thomas Hopper 8
Rebecca (Hopper) 7
Thomas Coons 8
Abiel Perry 20
Miriam Walcott (Perry) 19
Isaac Chadwick Sr. 16
Dinah Brewer (Chadwick) 12
Sylvanus Hulet 16
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 11
Johan Mathias Noah 14
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 6
Aaron Mattson 29
Mary McMinn (Mattson) 36
Isaac Pierson 7
Rachel Stern (Pierson) born
Palle Pallemon Fix 34
Christen Larsen 43
Poul Andersen 38
Anne Thomasdatter (Andersen) 27
Erick Jensen 36
Kirsten Pedersdatter (Jensen) 20 died after this time
Jens Moretensen 27
Maren Christensdatter (Moretensen) 15
William Peck 10
Sarah Holmes (Peck) ~about 6
George Peck ~about 6
Ann LaVes (Peck) 6
John Kinger 6
Mary (Kinger) 2
William Kinger ~about 3
Ann Carter (Kinger) ~about 3
John [Russon] Ruston 16
Elizabeth Whitford (Ruston) 2
Lott Davis 8
Hannah Shakespear (Davis) 8
William Round 2
Pheba Parsons (Round) 2
Richard Willson 10
Mary (Willson) 29 died after this time
John Wilkie 6
Nancy (Wilkie) 2
Peter Green 19
Charles Alexander Durham 1
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 2
Henry Etters 6

6

Joseph Lowe 37
Hannah Worth (Lowe) 40
John Stirland 32
Mary (Stirland) 20
Justus Winchel 15
Eva Savage (Winchel) 4
George Matson 7
Jens Thomasen 19
Maren Nielsen (Thomasen) 27
Jorgen Christensen 38
Zise Marie Mikkelsdatter (Christensen) 26
Peter Engelbret Palleson Fix 4
Mette Jensdatter Munk (Fix) 7
Anders Christensen 11
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 11
Christen Larsen 9
Karen Poulsdatter (Larsen) 6
Niels Eriksen born
John Wilson born

5

Joseph Lowe 6
Peder Simonsen 13

General

Population: 896 Million*

• Entertainment: Writers include Lord Chesterfield (manners), Goethe, Wieland (satire), Edmund Burke (American taxation), John Campbell (British survey), John Cartwright (US independence)
  Art includes Gainsborough "Lord Kilmorey",
  Music includes Gluck,
• Medicine: Austrian physician F.A. Mesmer uses hypnosis for health purposes
• Religion: Death of Pope Clement XIV - Interregnum to next year
• Science: Astronomiches Jahrbuch begun by J.E. Bode
  J.G. Gahn isolates manganese
  K.W. Scheele discovers chlorine and baryta
  Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen
  Monboddo asserts orangutans stunted humans – quickly made into racial argument
• Sports: Rules of cricket drawn up
• Technology: John Wilkinson's boring mill manufactures cylinders for steam engines
• Deaths: Naturalist Henry Baker, King Louis XV of France, Man of letters Oliver Goldsmith, Pope Clement XIV, Bengal governor Robert Clive, Economist François Quesnay

Americas

• Canada: Quebec act secures Canadian loyalty to Britain and establishes Roman Catholicism - perceived by US to be anti-colony

Asia

• India: Warren Hastings becomes governor of British India
• Tibet: First Englishman enters

Europe

• France: Death of Louis XV (unliked) - grandson Louis XVI begins to rule
• Holy Roman Empire: Austria occupies Bukovina
• Poland: Jesuits expelled
• Russia: Russia gets travel of Ottoman waters and is recognized protector of Christian churches
  End of Peasant uprising
• Switzerland: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi founds school for orphaned and neglected childrenin Zurich

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Accession of Abdul Hamid I as Sultan of Turkey
  Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarij between Ottoman Turks and Russia gives Russia port of Azov but Turks keep Romania

President:

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Pres: (Continental Congress) Henry Middleton

General

• Finance: Nonimportation of British goods to American colonies
• Land: British Quebec Act (prevent expansion into French territories) - Not anti-colonists, but Americans saw it as such
• Military: Lafayette becomes captain in Dragoons
• Natives: Yellow Creek Massacre of Chief Logan's family by Daniel Greathouse
• Politics: First Continental Congress convenes - called by Virginia House of Burgesses
  British House of Commons refuses MA petition to remove Thomas Hutchinson as governor general
  British make "Coercive Acts" (Intolerable Acts)

East

• Massachusetts: Coercive acts against MA include closing of port of Boston, Massachusetts charter revoked, town meetings forbidden
  Importation of slaves banned
  Suffolk Convention resolves to disregard coercive acts
  British employ spies to find out level of unrest
• New York: Ann Lee settles and begins spiritual revival
• Pennsylvania: Continental Congress meets at Philadelphia
• Rhode Island: Slavery abolished