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Personal data Gen. Peter Gansevoort 

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Household of Gen. Peter Gansevoort

He is married to Catherine van Schaick.

They got married on January 12, 1778 at Albany, Albany, New York, USA, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Herman Gansevoort  1779-1862
  2. Wessel Gansevoort  1781-1862
  4. John Gansevoort  1786-1876
  5. Peter Gansevoort  1789-1876
  6. Maria Gansevoort  1791-1872 

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    Historical events

    Birthday July 14, 1749

    • The temperature on July 14, 1749 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1749: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
      • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
      • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
      • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
      • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

    Day of marriage January 12, 1778

    • The temperature on January 12, 1778 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
      • February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
      • February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
      • July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
      • November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
      • November 26 » In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

    Day of death July 2, 1812

    • The temperature on July 2, 1812 was about 10.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 1812: Source: Wikipedia
      • May 11 » Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
      • August 11 » Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
      • September 5 » War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
      • November 14 » Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
      • December 17 » War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
      • December 29 » USSConstitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMSJava off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
    

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