geboren: 8 aug 1775; gedoopt: 13 aug 1775; kind: Tona; vader: Marinus [Thomasz] de Fouw; moeder: Jannetje [Pietersdr] de Kouter; opmerkingen: getuigen Marinus Bronkhorst en Adriana de Fouw.; scannr: 311.
April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
September 8 » The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
Christening day August 13, 1775
The temperature on August 13, 1775 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
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