Genealogy Ludwig » John Rettew (1779-1861)
Personal data John Rettew
- He was born on March 5, 1779 in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.Sources 1, 2
- He died on September 9, 1861 in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 82 years old.Source 1
- Alternative: He died on September 9, 1862, he was 83 years old.Source 2
- He is buried in West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Source 2
- A child of Lieut Aaron Rettew and Rebecca Aston
Household of John Rettew
He is married to Elizabeth Gordon.
They got married in the year 1812, he was 32 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- James G Rettew 1814-1815
- Sara Ann Rettew 1819-1877
- Elizabeth G Rettew 1820-1895
- Aaron G Rettew 1822-1887
- John E Rettew 1824-1890
- Mary Jane Rettew 1826-????
- William G Rettew 1829-1900
- Thomas Maxwell Rettew 1835-1906
- Levi G Rettew 1836-1918
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Database online.
Record for John B Rettew http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=84300
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com
Record for John Rettew
Historical events
Birthday March 5, 1779
- The temperature on March 5, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
- February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
- July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
- September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
- September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
Day of death September 9, 1862
- The temperature on September 9, 1862 was about 14.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
- 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
- July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
- August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
- December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
- December 13 » American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
- December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Same birth/death day
- 1774 » Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer († 1842)
- 1779 » Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician († 1865)
- 1785 » Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal († 1841)
- 1794 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer († 1872)
- 1794 » Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist († 1870)
- 1800 » Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher († 1875)
- 1834 » James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787)
- 1841 » Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (b. 1778)
- 1891 » Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
- 1893 » Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807)
- 1898 » Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842)
- 1901 » Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (b. 1864)
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