10

Alexander Gordon 61

9

Nathan Davis 93 died
Elizabeth Phinney [Finney] (Davis) 93
Peter Abbott 82
Thomas Bannister 68
Mercy Wheeler (Bannister) 65
Jonathan Snow 80 died
Andreas Killian 81
Joseph C Crandall 66
John Ladd 49
Sarah Van Duersen (Sickels) 62
Thomas Gordon 43
Sarah Wilson (Gordon) 36
John Martin 29
Johann Lorentz Kettering 35
Philip W. Gentzler 42

8

James Seeley 48
Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 47
Peleg Gifford 64
Abigail Shepherd (Gifford) 58
Azor Nash 28
William Shaw 29
Hannah Gardner (Shaw) 25
James King 38
Elizabeth (King) 34
Nathan Abbott 41
Mary (Marcy, Mercy) Bannister (Abbott) 40
Richard Hayes 74
John Killian 58
Elizabeth Zimmerman (Killian) 53
Thomas Coons 46
Anna Crandall (Coons) 38
Joseph Crandall 33
Mary Ladd (Crandall) 31
James [Jacob] Williamson 40
Mary Barber (Williamson) 34
Zachariah Sickels 30
Margit Van Aasdorph (Sickels) 26
Ichabod Perry 61
Ruth Fisher (Perry) 53
Jonathan Wolcott 73
David Brewer 51
Sarah Searles (Howlett) 60
John McMinn 69
Isabella (McMinn) 66
Joseph Pierson [Pearson] 55
Mary (Pierson) 55
George Stern 38
Sarah West (Stern) 35
Isaiah Curry Guymon 30
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 33
John Gordon 29
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 9
John Dudley 15
Achilles Durham 33
Henry Etters 41
Philip Tevebaugh or Devenpaugh 32
Margaret Cansler or Gensler (Tevebaugh) 24

7

Peter Clements 36
Anna Seeley (Clements) 28
John Savage 45
Joseph Smith 18
Noah Gifford 24
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 25
Azor Nash 3
Lucy Shaw (Nash) 9
William [James] Braffett 11
Reuben Davis 19
Mary or Polly Abbott (Davis) 16
Samuel Snow 33
Betty Perkins (Snow) 27
John Smith 20
Mary (Smith) 16
James Walsh 18
Mary (Walsh) 14
Philemon Hayes 34
Philip Killian 17
M Hocking[s] (Killian) 13
Thomas Hopper 17
Rebecca (Hopper) 16
Thomas Coons 17
Elizabeth Crandall (Coons) 5
John Williamson 1
Abiel Perry 29
Miriam Walcott (Perry) 28
Isaac Chadwick Sr. 25
Dinah Brewer (Chadwick) 21
Sylvanus Hulet 25
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 20
Johan Mathias Noah 23
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 15
Aaron Mattson 38
Mary McMinn (Mattson) 45
Isaac Pierson 16
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 9
James Dudley 1
Palle Pallemon Fix 43
Poul Andersen 47
Anne Thomasdatter (Andersen) 36
Erick Jensen 45
William Peck 19
Sarah Holmes (Peck) ~about 15
George Peck ~about 15
Ann LaVes (Peck) 15
John Kinger 15
Mary (Kinger) 11
William Kinger ~about 12
Ann Carter (Kinger) ~about 12
John [Russon] Ruston 25
Elizabeth Whitford (Ruston) 11
Lott Davis 17
Hannah Shakespear (Davis) 17
William Round 11
Pheba Parsons (Round) 11
Richard Willson 19
John Wilkie 15
Nancy (Wilkie) 11
Peter Green 28
Charles Alexander Durham 10
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 11
Henry Etters 15

6

Joseph Lowe 46
Hannah Worth (Lowe) 49
John Stirland 41
Mary (Stirland) 29
James H Clements 3
Lucy Owens (Clements) 2
Justus Winchel 24
Eva Savage (Winchel) 13
Edward Parker 3
George Matson 16
Jens Thomasen 28
Maren Nielsen (Thomasen) 36
Jorgen Christensen 47
Zise Marie Mikkelsdatter (Christensen) 35
Peter Engelbret Palleson Fix 13
Mette Jensdatter Munk (Fix) 16
Anders Christensen 20
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 20
Christen Larsen 18
Karen Poulsdatter (Larsen) 15
Niels Eriksen 9
Anne Jensdatter (Eriksen) 4
John Wilson 9

5

Joseph Lowe 15
Peder Simonsen 22
Thomas Jensen 7

General

Population: 956 Million*

• Entertainment: Writers include William Blake (poetical sketches), George Crabbe (poem), Schiller, Kant (metaphysics), Moses Mendelssohn (freedom of conscience), Webster (American spelling book),
  Art includes JL David "Grief of Andromache"
  Music includes Beethoven's first works, Mozart "Mass in C Minor", John Broadwood patents piano petals
• Science: William Herschel writes about the motion of the solar system in space
• Technology: Copper cylinder for calico printing by Henry Bell
  Jouffroy d'Abbans sails a paddle-wheel steamboat on the Saone River
  Horace de Saussure invents hair hygrometer
  New iron smelting process more efficient
• Transportation: First manned balloon flight
  First hydrogen balloon
• Weather: Cooler weather due to Icelandic eruption
• Deaths: Writer Johann Jakob Bodmer, Composer Johann Adolf Hasse, Poet Yokai Yagu, Landscaper Lancelot "Capability" Brown, Chemist Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Patriot James Otis, Author Louis Florence d'Epinay, Mathematician Leonhard Euler,

Africa

• North Africa: US merchants start paying tribute to Muslim pirates of Barbary coast

Americas

Asia

• India: India Act gives British control
• Japan: Start of severe five-year famine
  Eruption of Mt. Asama (Asamayama) kills 1151 to 5000

Europe

• General: End of siege of Gibraltar between Spanish and English
• France: Montgolfier brothers ascend in fire balloon at Annonay - first manned flight
  Lafayette becomes French officer
  First paddle-steamer boat sails in France
  First parachute jump – Louis Lenormand in France or 1783
• Great Britain: William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister of England until 1801
  Charles Simeon begins evangelical movement at Cambridge
  Treaty of Paris recognizes US independence
  Power of the British economy confirmed by "Eden Treaty" with France
• Holy Roman Empire: Joseph II enforces German language in Bohemia
  Civil marriage and divorce in Austrian dominions
• Iceland: Eruption of Skaptar Jokul leads to cooler weather worldwide and 9000 dead
  Possibly also eruption of Mt. Laki killing 10,000 - may be same eruption
• Ireland: Bank of Ireland founded
• Italian States: Earthquake kills from 35 to 50,000 with illness following
• Russia: Government under Potemkin annexes Crimea gaining access to Black Sea and Mediterranean

President:

Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Elias Boudinot
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Thomas Mifflin

General

• Abolition: Slave James Derham buys freedom, eventually setting up medical practice in New Orleans
• Americana: End of Revolutionary War - Independence with Treaty of Paris
• Land: Treaty of Paris between Britain and US gives US territory to the Mississippi River
• Military: Society of the Cincinnati – elite American revolutionary group founded
• Politics: Spain, Sweden and Denmark recognize American independence

East

• General: Second Pennamite War between Connecticut and Pennsylvania until 1788
• Delaware: Illness of the "bilious disorder" of the liver, possibly parasites, hepatitis, or malaria outbreak
• Maryland: Blacks disenfranchised
• Massachusetts: Slavery abolished with the Quok Walker case