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Personal data John May 

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Household of John May

(1) He is married to Susannah Porter.

They got married on November 15, 1775 at Pittsylvania, Virginia, he was 65 years old.Sources 6, 9, 15, 17


(2) He had a relationship with Jane May.


Child(ren):

  1. James May  1783-± 1783


Child(ren):


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Ancestors (and descendant) of John May

John May
1710-1785

(1) 1775

Susannah Porter
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Jane May
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James May
1783-± 1783


Onbekend

Joseph B. May Sr. Rev War Soldier
1732-1829
John May
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Sources

  1. Georgia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  4. Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  5. Bristol, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1720-1933, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  6. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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  11. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  12. Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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  14. Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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  17. Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  18. Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. III / Ancestry.com

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Historical events

Day of marriage November 15, 1775

  • The temperature on November 15, 1775 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. 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)
  • In the year 1775: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
    • July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
    • August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
    • 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.
    • December 3 » USSAlfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

Day of death October 11, 1785

  • The temperature on October 11, 1785 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. 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)
  • In the year 1785: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
    • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
    • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
    • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

Day of burial October 24, 1785

  • The temperature on October 24, 1785 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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)
  • In the year 1785: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
    • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
    • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
    • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.


Same birth/death day

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