Hobbs family tree » Hannah Rockwell (1778-1865)
Personal data Hannah Rockwell
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4- She was born on April 19, 1778 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.Sources 2, 4
- She died on July 5, 1865 in Utica, IL, she was 87 years old.
- She is buried in West Stafford, Connecticut.Source 4
- A child of Joshua Rockwell and Rhoda Dowd
Household of Hannah Rockwell
She is married to Asahel Higby.
They got married on January 13, 1799 at Middletown, Conn, she was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
- Eri Higby 1799-????
- Ezra S Higby 1801-1871
- Asahel Higby 1803-1838
- Abigail Higby 1809-1821
- Edward Higby 1811-????
- Samuel Higby 1813-1876
- Cornelia Higby 1815-1887
- James Monroe Higby 1816-1887
- Julia Elma Higby 1817-????
- William Higby 1822-1823
- Maria Abigail Higby 1825-????
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=85460054&pid=401
/ Ancestry.com - Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, Volume: 55 / Ancestry.com
- Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday April 19, 1778
- The temperature on April 19, 1778 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
- February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
- July 10 » American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
- August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- December 15 » American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
Day of marriage January 13, 1799
- The temperature on January 13, 1799 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1799: Source: Wikipedia
- January 17 » Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
- March 3 » The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
- May 27 » War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
- September 19 » French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
- December 3 » War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
- December 26 » Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen". (This is not to be confused with Washington's funeral on December 18.)
Day of death July 5, 1865
- The temperature on July 5, 1865 was about 23.0 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
- April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
- April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
- May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
- July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
- November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
Same birth/death day
- 1757 » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician († 1833)
- 1758 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral († 1831)
- 1785 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer († 1858)
- 1787 » Deaf Smith, American soldier († 1837)
- 1793 » Ferdinand I of Austria († 1875)
- 1806 » Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer († 1889)
- 1826 » Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
- 1833 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
- 1859 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
- 1862 » Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
- 1863 » Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
- 1884 » Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
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