10

Alexander Gordon 71

9

Mercy Wheeler (Bannister) 75
Thomas Gordon 53
Sarah Wilson (Gordon) 46
Johann Lorentz Kettering 45
Philip W. Gentzler 52

8

James Seeley 58
Elizabeth Brown (Seeley) 57
Peleg Gifford 74
Abigail Shepherd (Gifford) 68
Azor Nash 38
Nathan Abbott 51
Mary (Marcy, Mercy) Bannister (Abbott) 50
John Killian 68
Elizabeth Zimmerman (Killian) 63
Thomas Coons 56
Anna Crandall (Coons) 48
Joseph Crandall 43
Mary Ladd (Crandall) 41
James [Jacob] Williamson 50
Mary Barber (Williamson) 44
Zachariah Sickels 40
Ichabod Perry 71
David Brewer 61
Sarah Searles (Howlett) 70
Joseph Pierson [Pearson] 65
Mary (Pierson) 65
George Stern 48
Sarah West (Stern) 45
Isaiah Curry Guymon 40
Elizabeth Flynn (Guymon) 43
John Gordon 39
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 19
John Dudley 25
Achilles Durham 43
Henry Etters 51
Philip Tevebaugh or Devenpaugh 42
Margaret Cansler or Gensler (Tevebaugh) 34

7

Peter Clements 46
Anna Seeley (Clements) 38
John Savage 55
Joseph Smith 28
Noah Gifford 34
Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 35
Azor Nash 13
Lucy Shaw (Nash) 19
William [James] Braffett 21
Lucretia King (Braffett) 8
Reuben Davis 29
Mary or Polly Abbott (Davis) 26
Samuel Snow 43
Betty Perkins (Snow) 37
Philemon Hayes 44
Philip Killian 27
M Hocking[s] (Killian) 23
Thomas Hopper 27
Rebecca (Hopper) 26
Thomas Coons 27
Elizabeth Crandall (Coons) 15
John Williamson 11
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 6
Abiel Perry 39
Sylvanus Hulet 35
Mary Lewis (Hulet) 30
Johan Mathias Noah 33
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 25
Aaron Mattson 48
Mary McMinn (Mattson) 55
Isaac Pierson 26
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 19
Thomas Guymon 6
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 2
James Dudley 11
Celia [Polly] Ross (Dudley) 7
Palle Pallemon Fix 53
Poul Andersen 57
Anne Thomasdatter (Andersen) 46
Erick Jensen 55
John [Russon] Ruston 35
Elizabeth Whitford (Ruston) 21
Lott Davis 27
Hannah Shakespear (Davis) 27
James Southhall ~about 3
William Round 21
Pheba Parsons (Round) 21
Richard Willson 29
John Wilkie 25
Nancy (Wilkie) 21
Peter Green 38
Charles Alexander Durham 20
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 21
Henry Etters 25
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 8
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 9

6

Joseph Lowe 56
Hannah Worth (Lowe) 69
James H Clements 13
Lucy Owens (Clements) 12
Justus Winchel 34
Eva Savage (Winchel) 23
Charles M. Powell 8
Nancy Smith (Powell) 8
Edward Parker 13
Alpheus Gifford born
Ebenezer Snow 9
Polly Hayes (Snow) 5
Ralph Smith 4
Mary Walsh (Smith) 2
Asahel Perry 9
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 4
Charles Hulet 3
George Matson 26
Jens Thomasen 38
Maren Nielsen (Thomasen) 46
Jorgen Christensen 57
Peter Engelbret Palleson Fix 23
Mette Jensdatter Munk (Fix) 26
Anders Christensen 30
Else Christensdatter (Christensen) 30
Christen Larsen 28
Karen Poulsdatter (Larsen) 25
Niels Eriksen 19
Anne Jensdatter (Eriksen) 14
William Peck 5
Ann Kinger (Peck) 2
Thomas Turner 8
Ruth Rowles (Turner) 4
John Wilson 19

5

Joseph Lowe 25
Mary Stirland (Lowe) 7
Peder Simonsen 32
Maren Pedersdatter (Simonsen) 3
Thomas Jensen 17
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 5

General

Population: 980 Million*

• Entertainment: Writers include Marquis de Sade Philosophie dans le Boudoir, JB Cloots, ML Condorcet, William Godwin (political justice), Kant (religion and reason)
  Music includes Paganini's debut (age 11)
  Art includes "The Feast of Reason" in St. Eustache Church in Paris, Canova "Cupid and Psyche", David "Murder of Marat"
• Technology: Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
• Deaths: Dramatist Carlo Goldoni, Painter Francesco Guardi, Entomologist and philosopher Charles Bonnet, Louix XV mistress Mme. Du Barry executed, Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat, King Louis XVI (executed), Marie Antoinette (executed), Artist Francesco Guardi

Africa

• South Africa: End of wars between Xhosa and Boer settlers

Americas

• Canada: Sir Alexander Mackenzie first crosses Canada from coast to coast
• Haiti: Slavery abolished
• Trinidad: Captured by Britain from Spain

Asia

• China: British trade delegation under Lord Macartney rebuffed by the Manchu Emperor Qianlong
• India: Judicial system reorganized - State taxation and legal reforms along British lines – British East India Company fights for Britain
• Japan: Mt. Unsen erupts killing 53,000
• Java: Eruption of Miyi-Yama kills 53,000

Europe

• General: First Coalition against France formed
• France: Reign of terror continues with executions of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
  Marat stabbed in the bath by Charlotte Corday – Marat had itchy skin diseases contracted through hiding in dark cellars
  Committee of Public Safety established in France with Danton as its head
  Robspierre and St. Just join Committee of Public Safety
  Roman Catholicism banned in France
  Philippe Egalite the Duke of Orleans executed
  Napoleon takes Toulon
  Compulsory public education from age 6
  Louvre in Paris becomes national art gallery
  Jacobin Constitution of France adopted
  Royalist rebellion of France begins in Vendée
  France blocks Anglo-Hanoverians at Hondschoote, defeats Austrians at Wattignies
  Conscription in France for revolutionary army
  Cyclops girl born to the Clements in France – she lives to be 15 and was otherwise normal
• German States: French troops driven out
• Great Britain: Board of Agriculture established
  France declares war
• Holy Roman Empire: War on France
• Netherlands: France declares war
• Poland: Second partition between Russia and Prussia
• Spain: Alliance forms with France

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Sultan Selim II reforms Ottoman empire – eventually costs him the throne and his life

Pacific

• Australia: First free British settlers reach Australia
• New Zealand: Lermadec Islands near New Zealand discovered

President:

Pres: George Washington

General

• Abolition: US Fugitive Slave Law compels escaped slaves to return to owners
• Americana: Building of the Capitol win Washington DC by Thornton
• Politics: US proclaims neutrality in French revolution
  US continues trade with French West Indies
  John Jay sent to avoid war with Britain, Compromise - US ports now open to all trade with Brit - Britain kidnaps US troops
  John Jay pleads with England for removal of fur ports after treaty of 1793
  Jefferson resigns as secretary of state
• Technology: Cotton gin (short for engine) by Eli Whitney
  Jean-Pierre Blanchard begins first manned balloon trip in US

East

• New York: Securities transactions in New York moves to Tontine Coffee House on Wall Street
• Pennsylvania: Yellow Fever outbreak
• Vermont: Influenza and "Putrid Fever" (Typhus?)

South

• Virginia: Influenza outbreak