Edgecomb Family Tree » 49Benjamin Edgecomb (1787-1866)
Personal data 49Benjamin Edgecomb
- The name is of type 'name given at or near birth'
- He was born on October 5, 1787.
- He died in the year 1866 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME, he was 78 years old.
- A child of 21James Edgecomb JR and Anna Burnham
- This information was last updated on March 5, 2020.
Household of 49Benjamin Edgecomb
He is married to Sarah Foss.
They got married on April 14, 1810 at Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, ME, he was 22 years old.
Child(ren):
- 95Eli Edgecomb 1811-1891
- 96Elbridge Edgecomb 1814-????
- Mary A Edgecomb 1816-????
- 97Arthur D Edgecomb 1819-????
- 98Charles Edgecomb 1822-????
- 99Benjamin Edgecomb 1824-????
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Historical events
Birthday October 5, 1787
- The temperature on October 5, 1787 was about 11.0 °C. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
- January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
- May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
- July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
- August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
Day of marriage April 14, 1810
- The temperature on April 14, 1810 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1810: Source: Wikipedia
- February 4 » Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
- February 5 » Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- April 19 » Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- May 25 » May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- August 27 » Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
- November 17 » Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
Same birth/death day
- 1781 » Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher († 1848)
- 1792 » Joseph Crosfield, English businessman († 1844)
- 1795 » Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax († 1873)
- 1803 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter († 1844)
- 1816 » Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary († 1885)
- 1817 » Catherine Cooper Hopley, British author and naturalist († 1911)
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Heather Edgecomb, "Edgecomb Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/edgecomb-family-tree/I185.php : accessed May 11, 2025), "49Benjamin Edgecomb (1787-1866)".
Heather Edgecomb, "Edgecomb Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/edgecomb-family-tree/I185.php : accessed May 11, 2025), "49Benjamin Edgecomb (1787-1866)".