Profession: Glass Maker/Weaver, Minister, owner of glass factory, Baptist Minister, Anabaptist leader and preacher, Glassman (Manufacturer of Glass), reverend/pioneer who landed in Salem, Manufacturer of Glass at Newport, RI, Reverend, glassmaker and weaver, Rev..
(Ancestral File Number) : 81Z1-KD.
He died on October 15, 1682 in Middletown, Aquidneck Island (Present Newport County), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America, he was 75 years old.
He is buried after October 15, 1682 in Holmes Lot, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten.
April 4 » Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
April 5 » Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
April 9 » Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
May 23 » Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
July 9 » Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
September 13 » Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
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