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Personal data RUTH ALDEN 

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Household of RUTH ALDEN

She is married to Benjamin Thayer.

They got married on December 12, 1793 at Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, she was 34 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Ruth Alden Thayer  1794-1854 
  3. Alden Thayer  1797-1860
  4. Jemima Sherman  1799-1887
  5. Jemima Thayer  1799-1887

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Ancestors (and descendant) of RUTH ALDEN

John Alden
1681-1739
Hannah Briggs
1684-1739
Noah Alden
1725-1797
Joanna Vaughn
1725-1804

RUTH ALDEN
1759-1839

1793

Benjamin Thayer
1744-1826

Ruth Alden Thayer
1794-1854
Henry Cushman Thayer
1796-1872
Alden Thayer
1797-1860
Jemima Sherman
1799-1887
Jemima Thayer
1799-1887

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

    Historical events

    Birthday August 10, 1759

    • The temperature on August 10, 1759 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. 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)
    • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1759: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      • January 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
      • May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
      • July 25 » French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
      • August 1 » Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
      • September 13 » Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

    Day of marriage December 12, 1793

    • The temperature on December 12, 1793 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
      • May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
      • July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
      • July 22 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
      • September 18 » The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
      • October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
      • December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

    Day of death December 9, 1839

    • The temperature on December 9, 1839 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent betrokken. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
      • January 9 » The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
      • April 19 » The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
      • June 17 » In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
      • September 5 » The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
      • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
    

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