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Personal data George Adam (George Adam) Cook 


Household of George Adam (George Adam) Cook

(1) He is married to Elizabeth Barkley.

They got married on January 1, 1785 at Harrisburg, Dauphin Co. Pennsylvania, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth Louise Cook  1792-1833 


(2) He is married to Rachel Troutman.

They got married in the year 1817 at Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 56 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Lucinda Cook  1820-1900


Notes about George Adam (George Adam) Cook

5th Gr Grandfather , maternally
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Ancestors (and descendant) of George Adam Cook

Reuben Cook
1739-1820
Mary Daniel
1744-1828

George Adam Cook
1760-1850

(1) 1785

Elizabeth Barkley
± 1765-????

(2) 1817
Lucinda Cook
1820-1900

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Historical events

  • The temperature on January 10, 1760 was about -6 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: geheel 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)
  • 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 1760: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
    • June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
    • July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
    • October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
    • October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
    • November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
  • The temperature on January 1, 1785 was about -6 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. 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.
  • The temperature on March 7, 1850 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 2 » Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
    • March 5 » The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
    • May 15 » The Bloody Island massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry.
    • September 29 » The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
    • November 24 » Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
    • November 29 » The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.


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