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Personal data Eli Whitney 

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Household of Eli Whitney

He is married to Elizabeth Fay.

They got married on February 9, 1765 at Westborough, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA , he was 24 years old.


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  1. Eli Whitney  1765-1825

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Eli Whitney

Joseph Child
1669-1743
Hannah French
1676-1766
Mary Child
1699-1776

Eli Whitney
1740-1807

1765

Elizabeth Fay
1740-1777

Eli Whitney
1765-1825

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    Birthday May 3, 1740

    • The temperature on May 3, 1740 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken bui hagel. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
    • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
      • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
      • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
      • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
      • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
      • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
      • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

    Day of marriage February 9, 1765

    • The temperature on February 9, 1765 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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)
    • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
      • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
      • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
      • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
      • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
      • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

    Day of death August 12, 1807

    • The temperature on August 12, 1807 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt onweer regen. 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 1807: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 5 » HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
      • February 8 » After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
      • March 25 » The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
      • July 7 » The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
      • July 20 » Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
      • September 2 » The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
    

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