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William Downs
1670-1706

Edward Downs
1701-1754


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Sources

  1. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. / Ancestry.com
  2. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  4. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday June 22, 1701

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1701: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
    • May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
    • July 19 » Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
    • July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
    • August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
    • September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

Christening day December 25, 1816

  • The temperature on December 25, 1816 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 2 » Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
    • July 27 » Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
    • August 14 » The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
    • August 24 » The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • September 15 » HMSWhiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
    • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

Day of death July 18, 1754

  • The temperature on July 18, 1754 was about 15.0 °C. There was 158 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1754: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
    • May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
    • July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.


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