My Giant Family Tree » Elizabeth Heffelfinger (1741-1838)

Personal data Elizabeth Heffelfinger 

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  • She was born on March 30, 1741 in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
  • She died on December 15, 1838 in Brecknock, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, she was 97 years old.

Household of Elizabeth Heffelfinger

She is married to Peter Schweitzer.

They got married in the year 1788, she was 46 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Peter Schweitzer  1760-1824
  3. Barbara Schweitzer  1765-1830
  6. Susanna Schweitzer  1778-1855

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Historical events

Birthday March 30, 1741

  • The temperature on March 30, 1741 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1741: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
    • March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
    • June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
    • July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
    • August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
    • September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

Day of death December 15, 1838

  • The temperature on December 15, 1838 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt windstil. Source: KNMI
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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 1838: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
    • April 30 » Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
    • June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
    • June 28 » Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
    • July 15 » Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
    • September 18 » The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.


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About the surname Heffelfinger


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