Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1782 Record for Helen Paxton Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Record for Helen Paxton Name: Helen Paxton Gender: Female Age: 0 Birth Date: 10 Nov 1782 Baptism Date: 10 Nov 1782 Baptism Place: Burntisland, Fife, Scotland Father: George Paxton Mother: Helen Mckinzie
PAXTON, GEORGE: carter in Burntisland; Disp & Settlement in favour of eldest son, Hugh Paxton, carter in Burntisland, and Helen Paxton, his dau; also to George Paxton, his yst son; 4 Dec 1821 [B9/8/1 fol 58-61]
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
June 20 » The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
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