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Personal data Dorcas Way 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Household of Dorcas Way

She is married to Jonathan Murray.

They got married on April 23, 1740 at Guilford, she was 22 years old.Sources 6, 7


Child(ren):

  1. Amassa Murray  1741-1822
  2. Mabel Murray  1743-1779
  3. Eber Murray  1745-1826
  4. Asahel Murray  1747-1784 
  5. Jonathan Murray  1750-1785
  6. Daniel Murray  1755-????
  7. Stephen Murray  1757-1842

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dorcas Way

Dorcas Way
1717-1794

1740

Jonathan Murray
1714-1764

Amassa Murray
1741-1822
Mabel Murray
1743-1779
Eber Murray
1745-1826
Asahel Murray
1747-1784
Jonathan Murray
1750-1785
Daniel Murray
1755-????
Stephen Murray
1757-1842

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Sources

  1. Family Data Collection - Deaths, Edmund West, comp.
    Death date: 24 November 1794 Death place: Madison, CT, USA
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  2. Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Birth year: 1717; Birth city: Lebanon; Birth state: CT.
    Birth date: 1 July 1717 Birth place: Lebanon, New London, CT Death date: 24 November 1794 Death place: Madison, CT
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  3. Family Data Collection - Births, Edmund West, comp.
    Birth date: 1 July 1717 Birth place: Lebanon, New London, CT, USA
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  4. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Ancestry.com
    Birth date: 1 Jul 1717 Birth place: Lebanon
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  5. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Trees
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=12937497&pid=3579
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  6. Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Birth year: 1717; Birth city: Guilford; Birth state: CT.
    Birth date: 1 July 1717 Birth place: Guilford, New Haven, CT Death date: 24 November 1794 Death place: Marriage date: 23 April 1740 Marriage place:
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  7. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Ancestry.com
    Marriage date: 23 Apr 1740 Marriage place: Guilford Residence date: Residence place: Lyme
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Historical events

Birthday July 1, 1717

  • Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1717: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
    • March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
    • June 24 » The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
    • July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
    • August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
    • September 29 » An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.

Day of marriage April 23, 1740

  • The temperature on April 23, 1740 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of death November 24, 1794

  • The temperature on November 24, 1794 was about 4.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 28 » Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
    • July 13 » The Battle of Trippstadt is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
    • July 17 » The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
    • July 28 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
    • August 8 » Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
    • August 20 » Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.


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