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Household of Priscilla Harris

She is married to Matthew Travers.

They got married on January 18, 1796 at Maryland, Verenigde Staten, she was 22 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Priscilla Harris

Edward Brown
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Elizabeth McCloster
1709-1762
Keziah Brown
1743-1795

Priscilla Harris
1773-1863

1796

Matthew Travers
1761-1812


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    Historical events

    Birthday February 22, 1773

    • The temperature on February 22, 1773 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1773: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
      • May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
      • June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
      • October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
      • October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
      • December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

    Day of marriage January 18, 1796

    • The temperature on January 18, 1796 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1796: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 1 » The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
      • February 16 » Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon.
      • March 9 » Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
      • May 15 » War of the First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
      • November 17 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
      • December 31 » The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.

    Day of death November 28, 1863

    • The temperature on November 28, 1863 was about 0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
      • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
      • April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
      • June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
      • July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
      • September 16 » Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
    

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