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Personal data William Grancer Short 

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Household of William Grancer Short

(1) He is married to Elizabeth Bolling.

They got married at Burke, North Carolina.

They got married on 1792 or 1790 at Burke, North Carolina, United States, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Benjamin Short  1792-1877
  3. Joseph D Short  1793-????
  4. Adam Short  1794-1880
  6. Rebecca Short  1800-1875
  7. Abraham Short  ± 1801-????
  8. Elizabeth Short  1806-1845


(2) He is married to Mary "Polly" Burchfield.

They got married in the year 1804 at North Carolina, United States, he was 37 years old.

They got married in the year 1809 at Burke, North Carolina, United States, he was 42 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Joseph D Short  1804-????
  4. Virginia Jane Short  1807-1877
  5. Nathaniel Short  1809-????
  6. Anne Short  1810-????
  8. Providence Short  1813-1865 
  10. Alexander Short  1821-????
  11. Rebecca Short  1822-????
  12. Anne Short  1828-????

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    Sources

    1. Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=87848090&pid=1957
    2. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    3. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday May 15, 1766

    • The temperature on May 15, 1766 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
      • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
      • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
      • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
      • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
      • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

    Day of death July 4, 1851

    • The temperature on July 4, 1851 was about 17.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • May 15 » The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
      • June 5 » Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
      • August 22 » The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
      • October 24 » William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
      • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
      • December 22 » India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
    

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