Kennedy Family Tree » Francis Fenton (1690-1781)
Personal data Francis Fenton
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10- He was born on July 22, 1690 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 2, 5, 6, 7
- Resident on November 28, 1759: Willington, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten.Source 9
- He died on January 25, 1781 in Willington, Tolland, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten, he was 90 years old.Sources 2, 3, 7, 8
- He is buried in Willington, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten.Sources 4, 7
- Probate in the year 1781 naar Hartford, Connecticut, USA.Source 3
- A child of Robert Fenton and Dorothy Farrar
Household of Francis Fenton
He is married to Elizabeth Ann Berry.
They got married on January 1, 1716 at Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten, he was 25 years old.Sources 2, 10
They got married on January 1, 1717 at Mansfield City, Tolland, Connecticut, USA, he was 26 years old.Child(ren):
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Sources
- , Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=108831291&pid=9593
- Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Birth year: 1690; Birth city: Woburn; Birth state: MA
- Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Ancestry.com, Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut / Ancestry.com
- Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Ancestry.com, Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut / Ancestry.com
- Family Data Collection - Births, Edmund West, comp. / Ancestry.com
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com
- Family Data Collection - Deaths, Edmund West, comp. / Ancestry.com
- Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday July 22, 1690
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1690: Source: Wikipedia
- February 3 » The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
- February 15 » Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
- June 14 » King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
- July 1 » Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
- August 24 » Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
- September 25 » Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
Day of marriage January 1, 1716
- The temperature on January 1, 1716 was about -3 °C. 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 1716: Source: Wikipedia
- July 8 » The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.
- August 5 » Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
- August 21 » Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.
Day of death January 25, 1781
- The temperature on January 25, 1781 was about 2.0 °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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
- January 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
- February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
- March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
- August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
- October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
- November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
Same birth/death day
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- 1651 » Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer († 1711)
- 1711 » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic († 1753)
- 1713 » Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon († 1780)
- 1733 » Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian († 1790)
- 1726 » Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- 1733 » Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)
- 1751 » Paul Dudley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
- 1852 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
- 1872 » Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
- 1881 » Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
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Brian Kennedy, "Kennedy Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kennedy-family-tree/P9593.php : accessed May 3, 2025), "Francis Fenton (1690-1781)".