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Personal data James Gignilliat 

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Household of James Gignilliat

He is married to Charlotte Pepper.

They got married on May 8, 1766 at St. Helena, Beaufort, South Carolina, he was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gilbert Gignilliat  1778-1815 
  2. Ann Gignilliat  1783-1818 
  3. ??  
  4. James Gignilliat  1767-1806
  8. Henry Gignilliat  1786-1854


Notes about James Gignilliat

James Gignilliat was made justice of the peace, Beaufort District, South Carolina, March 30, 1766, when the South Carolina Provincial Congress was dissolved and reorganized as the General Assembly, preparatory to active participation in the American Revolution. His plantation near Beaufort was exposed to the ravages of war so he moved his family to a safer place , but he remained in his own district for service. After the war he and his family moved to Liberty County (now McIntosh), Georgia, where they lived at Contentment Bluff Plantation near Darien and where he and his wife and daughter Mary Magdalen are buried. James Gignilliat owned a lot of property in Liberty and McIntosh counties. He was a representative from Liberty County 1785-88 to the Georgia House of Assembly. He was of Huguenot descent. Portraits of James and Charlotte Pepper Gignilliat are hanging in the Dewitt Wallace Museum in Williamsburg, VA. (From King and Allied Families, by Sarah Joyce King Cooper).
RIN: MH:N176

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    Birthday July 30, 1746

    • The temperature on July 30, 1746 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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      Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
    • In the year 1746: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 8 » Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
      • April 16 » The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
      • June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
      • October 22 » The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

    Day of marriage May 8, 1766

    • The temperature on May 8, 1766 was about 12.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken donker. Special wheather fenomena: donder. 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
      • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
      • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
      • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
      • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
      • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
      • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

    Day of death March 12, 1794

    • The temperature on March 12, 1794 was about 8.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind 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)
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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 1794: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 24 » In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
      • June 1 » The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
      • June 17 » Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.
      • June 26 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
      • July 13 » The Battle of Trippstadt is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
      • August 7 » U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
    

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