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Personal data Philip Nelson 

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Household of Philip Nelson

He is married to Sarah Nelson Burwell.

They got married on June 27, 1789 at Middlesex County, Virginia, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Nelson  1792-1817 
  2. Lucy Grymes Nelson  1793-1856
  8. William Nelson  1809-1851

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    2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday March 4, 1766

    • The temperature on March 4, 1766 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
      • 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.
      • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
      • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
      • 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 marriage June 27, 1789

    • The temperature on June 27, 1789 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
      • March 4 » In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
      • April 1 » In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
      • August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
      • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
      • November 26 » A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.

    Day of death September 5, 1851

    • The temperature on September 5, 1851 was about 16.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 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.
      • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
      • February 6 » The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
      • September 18 » First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
      • 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 9 » The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
    

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    • 1756 » Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter and educator († 1823)
    • 1760 » Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples († 1833)
    • 1760 » William Payne, English painter († 1830)
    • 1769 » Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha († 1849)
    • 1770 » Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic († 1840)
    • 1778 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander († 1803)

    Source: Wikipedia


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