Edgecomb Family Tree » George Manson (1786-1863)

Personal data George Manson 

  • The name is of type 'name given at or near birth'
  • He was born on November 2, 1786 in Gorham, Cumberland, ME.
  • He died on February 25, 1863 in Limington, York, ME, he was 76 years old.
  • This information was last updated on March 4, 2020.

Household of George Manson

He is married to Sarah Edgecomb.

They got married on November 26, 1809, he was 23 years old.

They got married

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Historical events

Birthday November 2, 1786

  • The temperature on November 2, 1786 was about -0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
    • June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
    • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
    • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
    • August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
    • September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

Day of death February 25, 1863

  • The temperature on February 25, 1863 was about 2.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
    • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
    • June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
    • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
    • August 15 » The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
    • December 16 » American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.


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