10

Alexander Gordon 65

9

Thomas Bannister 72
Mercy Wheeler (Bannister) 69
Andreas Killian 85
Joseph C Crandall 70
John Ladd 53 died
Sarah Van Duersen (Sickels) 66
Thomas Gordon 47
Sarah Wilson (Gordon) 40
John Martin 33 died
Johann Lorentz Kettering 39
Philip W. Gentzler 46

8

James Seeley 52
Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 51
Peleg Gifford 68
Abigail Shepherd (Gifford) 62
Azor Nash 32
Nathan Abbott 45
Mary (Marcy, Mercy) Bannister (Abbott) 44
Richard Hayes 78
John Killian 62
Elizabeth Zimmerman (Killian) 57
Thomas Coons 50
Anna Crandall (Coons) 42
Joseph Crandall 37
Mary Ladd (Crandall) 35
James [Jacob] Williamson 44
Mary Barber (Williamson) 38
Zachariah Sickels 34
Margit Van Aasdorph (Sickels) 30 died after this time
Ichabod Perry 65
Ruth Fisher (Perry) 57
Jonathan Wolcott 77
David Brewer 55
Sarah Searles (Howlett) 64
John McMinn 73
Isabella (McMinn) 70
Joseph Pierson [Pearson] 59
Mary (Pierson) 59
George Stern 42
Sarah West (Stern) 39
Isaiah Curry Guymon 34
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 37
John Gordon 33
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 13
John Dudley 19
Achilles Durham 37
Henry Etters 45
Philip Tevebaugh or Devenpaugh 36
Margaret Cansler or Gensler (Tevebaugh) 28

7

Peter Clements 40
Anna Seeley (Clements) 32
John Savage 49
Joseph Smith 22
Noah Gifford 28
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 29
Azor Nash 7
Lucy Shaw (Nash) 13
William [James] Braffett 15
Lucretia King (Braffett) 2
Reuben Davis 23
Mary or Polly Abbott (Davis) 20
Samuel Snow 37
Betty Perkins (Snow) 31
John Smith 24
Mary (Smith) 20
James Walsh 22
Mary (Walsh) 18
Philemon Hayes 38
Philip Killian 21
M Hocking[s] (Killian) 17
Thomas Hopper 21
Rebecca (Hopper) 20
Thomas Coons 21
Elizabeth Crandall (Coons) 9
John Williamson 5
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) born
Abiel Perry 33
Isaac Chadwick Sr. 29
Dinah Brewer (Chadwick) 25
Sylvanus Hulet 29
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 24
Johan Mathias Noah 27
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 19
Aaron Mattson 42
Mary McMinn (Mattson) 49
Isaac Pierson 20
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 13
Thomas Guymon born
James Dudley 5
Celia [Polly] Ross (Dudley) 1
Palle Pallemon Fix 47
Poul Andersen 51
Anne Thomasdatter (Andersen) 40
Erick Jensen 49
William Peck 23
Sarah Holmes (Peck) ~about 19
George Peck ~about 19
Ann LaVes (Peck) 19
John Kinger 19
Mary (Kinger) 15
William Kinger ~about 16
Ann Carter (Kinger) ~about 16
John [Russon] Ruston 29
Elizabeth Whitford (Ruston) 15
Lott Davis 21
Hannah Shakespear (Davis) 21
William Round 15
Pheba Parsons (Round) 15
Richard Willson 23
John Wilkie 19
Nancy (Wilkie) 15
Peter Green 32
Charles Alexander Durham 14
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 15
Henry Etters 19
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 2
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 3

6

Joseph Lowe 50
Hannah Worth (Lowe) 53
James H Clements 7
Lucy Owens (Clements) 6
Justus Winchel 28
Eva Savage (Winchel) 17
Charles M. Powell 2
Nancy Smith (Powell) 2
Edward Parker 7
Ebenezer Snow 3
Asahel Perry 3
George Matson 20
Jens Thomasen 32
Maren Nielsen (Thomasen) 40
Jorgen Christensen 51
Zise Marie Mikkelsdatter (Christensen) 39
Peter Engelbret Palleson Fix 17
Mette Jensdatter Munk (Fix) 20
Anders Christensen 24
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 24
Christen Larsen 22
Karen Poulsdatter (Larsen) 19
Niels Eriksen 13
Anne Jensdatter (Eriksen) 8
Thomas Turner 2
John Wilson 13

5

Joseph Lowe 19
Mary Stirland (Lowe) 1
Peder Simonsen 26
Thomas Jensen 11

General

Population: 968 Million*

• Entertainment: Writers include Beaumarchais (comedy), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (French idyll), Goethe, Johann Heinse, Schiller, John Adams (US Constitution), Jeremy Bentham (defense of usury), Imperial Russian Dictionary written, James Madison (US vices), Ottobah Cugoana Thoughts and Sentiments on Slavery
  Art includes Sir Joshua Reynolds "Lady Heathfield", Tischbein "Goethe on the Ruins in the Roman Campagna"
  Music includes Mozart "Don Giovanni", Ernst Chladni experiments with sound patterns on vibrating plates, Beethoven studies with Mozart
• Exploration: Horace de Saussure reaches summit of Mont Blanc and takes weather observations
  Grey sets sail for circumnavigation
• Science: Lavoisier writes about nomenclature "chimique"
• Technology: John Fitch steam engine
  Edmund Cartwright invents steam-operated weaving loom
• Deaths: Catholic philosopher Alphonsus di Liguori, Artist Pompeo Batoni, Artist Arthur Devis, Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Musician Leopold Mozart,

Africa

• Morocco: Tuaregs, Sahara nomads, abolish Moroccan pashalik of Timbuktu
• Sierra Leone: English settlement founded for freed slaves

Americas

• Canada: Lord Dorchester purchases Toronto from Missisauga Indians

Asia

• India: Inundations in Punjab kill 15,000
  Famines
• Japan: Rice riots in Edo

Europe

• General: Turkey fights Russia to regain the Crimea
• Austrian Netherlands: (Belgium) Declared province of Habsburg monarchy
• France: Parlement of Paris demands summoning of States-General – King Louis XVI declares that they will be summoned July 1792
  Assembly of notables dismissed
  French financial minister Calonne resigns after France proves insolvent after American Revolution
• German States: Luigi Boccherini made court composer in Berlin
• Great Britain: Free African Society founded as civil rights organization
  Edmund Cartwright invents steam-operated weaving loom
  Marylebone Cricket Club founded and moved to Lord's cricket ground
• Russia: Catherine II visits the Crimea – sees Potemkin's artificial villages in passing
  Turkey declares war
  Imperial Russian Dictionary first printed – 285 words in 200 languages
• Switzerland: French climbers reach summit of Mount Blanc – highest in Europe

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Turkey declares war and fights Russia to regain the Crimea

Pacific

• General: Voyage of Lt. William Bligh in the Bounty to the Pacific

President:

Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Nathaniel Gorham
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Arthur St. Clair

General

• Abolition: Free African Society founded as civil rights organization
• Americana: Constitution written and ratification process begins
• Entertainment: Writers include James Madison writes about vices of US political system, John Adams writes defense of US constitution
• Finance: Dollar currency introduced in the US
  First US coin - "Brasher doubloon"
• Politics: Northwest Ordinance provides for settlement of western territories
  Federal government established
  Great compromise allowed - slaves get 3/5 representation
  Daniel Shays leads rebellion of 2000 farmers protesting unfair conditions
• Religion: All but three states have abolished official churches
  Philadelphia Methodists force blacks into back row - they protest and form the AME

East

• General: American inventor John Fitch launches steamboat on Delaware River
  Daniel Shays leads rebellion of 2000 farmers protesting unfair conditions
• Delaware: Ratifies Constitution - 1st state
• New Jersey: Ratifies constitution - 3rd state
• New York: New York Assembly imposes duties on foreign goods
• Pennsylvania: Ratifies Constitution - 2nd state
  Philadelphia Methodists force blacks into back row - they protest and form the AME