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Household of William Prescott Jr

He is married to Catherine Greene Hickling.

They got married on November 30, 1793 at Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, he was 31 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Prescott

Benjamin Prescott
1695-1738
Abigail Oliver
1697-1765
Jonathan Hale
????-1768
Susanna Tuttle
± 1709-1787
Abigail Hale
1733-1821

William Prescott
1762-1844

1793

Catherine Greene Hickling
1767-1852

William Hickling Prescott
1796-1859
Catherine Elizabeth Dexter
1799-1891

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    Birthday August 19, 1762

    • The temperature on August 19, 1762 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen geheel 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)
    • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1762: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
      • May 22 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
      • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
      • June 6 » In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
      • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
      • September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

    Day of marriage November 30, 1793

    • The temperature on November 30, 1793 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken windstil. 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
      • January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
      • February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
      • July 23 » Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
      • August 12 » The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
      • September 8 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
      • December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

    Day of death December 8, 1844

    • The temperature on December 8, 1844 was about -7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • March 21 » The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
      • March 30 » One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
      • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
      • July 3 » The last pair of great auks is killed.
      • October 22 » Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
      • December 21 » The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
    

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