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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thomas Root

Jedediah Strong
1637-1733
Freedom Woodward
1641-1681
Thomas Root
1667-1758

Thomas Root
1692-1782


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    Birthday July 29, 1692

    • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1692: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 13 » Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
      • June 2 » Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and later hanged.
      • June 7 » Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
      • August 19 » Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
      • September 22 » The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.
      • October 12 » The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province.

    Day of death December 2, 1782

    • The temperature on December 2, 1782 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
      • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
      • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
      • August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
      • November 30 » American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
      • December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
    

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    Source: Wikipedia


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