Lortz Family Tree » WILLIAM WITHERS (1636-1703)
Personal data WILLIAM WITHERS
Source 1- He was born on January 1, 1636 in Arkholme Parish, Melling, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.
- He died on August 11, 1703 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, United States, he was 67 years old.
Household of WILLIAM WITHERS
Attention: Partner (Mary Littlejohn) is 42 years younger.
He is married to Mary Littlejohn.
They got married in the year 1661, he was 25 years old.
Child(ren):
- William WITHERS 1677-1703
Ancestors (and descendant) of WILLIAM WITHERS
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=44120712&pid=5926
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Historical events
Birthday January 1, 1636
- Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1636: Source: Wikipedia
- March 26 » Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- April 30 » Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
- October 4 » Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- October 28 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
- December 13 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
Day of death August 11, 1703
- 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 1703: Source: Wikipedia
- January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
- February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
- May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
- July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
- December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
Same birth/death day
- 1600 » Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian and academic († 1649)
- 1628 » Christoph Bernhard, German composer and theorist († 1692)
- 1655 » Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher († 1728)
- 1684 » Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar and author († 1748)
- 1704 » Soame Jenyns, English author, poet, and politician († 1787)
- 1711 » Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier († 1749)
- 1596 » Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
- 1614 » Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
- 1656 » Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
- 1725 » Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (b. 1723)
- 1774 » Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (b. 1722)
- 1813 » Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (b. 1745)
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The Lortz Family Tree publication was prepared by Robin Lortz.
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Robin Lortz, "Lortz Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/lortz-family-tree/P5926.php : accessed May 6, 2025), "WILLIAM WITHERS (1636-1703)".