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Major Henry Balfour
1724-1791
Jane / Jean Elliot
1748-1815
Robert BIGGAR
1767-????

Henry Balfour BIGGAR
1792-1817


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    1. Tasker Web Site, Charles Tasker, July 28, 2022
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      Henry Balfour Biggar<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Mar 10 1792<br>Death: May 14 1817<br>Burial: 1817 - Saint Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Parents: Robert Biggar, Louisa Biggar (born Balfour)<br>Brother: Walter Biggar
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    4. Compilation of Published Sources, via https://www.myheritage.com/research/coll..., 1898

      The Balfours of Pilrig : a History for the Family, 1907
      Date: 1907
      Text: "...to his memory by the Faculty of Advocates. To the Memory of HENRY BALFOUR BIGGAR, Esq., Advocate Born March ioth, 1792. Died May 14th, 1817. Aged 25 years. Eminently distinguished by the Strength of his..."
      About this source:
      Title: The Balfours of Pilrig : a History for the Family, 1907
      Subject: Balfour family
      Description: "Pages for manuscript addition" at end, 1. Mother house -- 2. The earliest ancestors -- 3. Mr. James Balfour -- 4. Court and Kirk -- 5. Ministers summoned to London -- 6. Later days of Mr. James Balfour; His son, Mr. Andrew Balfour -- 7. James Balfour, advocate and clerk of session -- 8. The Darien Company -- 9. The first Laird -- 10. Letters to and from Leyden -- 11. Helen and Gavin Hamilton -- 12. Death of James Balfour of Pilrig -- 13. Elliots and Elphinstons -- 14. The second James Balfour of Pilrig -- 15. "The forty-five" -- 16. Mr. Neil MacVicar --17. James Balfour and David Hume -- 18. James Balfour and his family, 19. Mary Cecilia and William Gibson -- 20. Collateral branches in the last half of the eighteenth century -- 21. Marriage of John Balfour and Jean Whytt -- 22. The Gibsons -- 23. The Professor -- 24. Letter from Mrs. Gibson -- 25. John Balfour -- 26. In time of war -- 27. The Macintoshes of Corrybrough More -- 28. Margaret goes to Pilrig -- 29. Margaret's letter -- 30. James Balfour and Anne Mackintosh -- 31. In the first decade of the nineteenth century -- 32. The new building -- 33. The young generation -- 34. Menie -- 35. Death of James Balfour -- 36. Collaterals in the nineteenth century -- 37. The last Laird, 16
      Publication date: 1907
      Publisher: Edinburgh : William Brown
      Author: Balfour-Melville, Barbara Gordon, 1846-
      Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
      Tags: allen_county, americana
      Notes: Pedigree on pages 276 and 277 is bound into the gutter of the book causing some text to be cut off
      Contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

    Historical events

    Birthday March 10, 1792

    • The temperature on March 10, 1792 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
      • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
      • August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
      • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
      • October 12 » The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
      • December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

    Day of death May 14, 1817

    • The temperature on May 14, 1817 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt bui hagel. 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 1817: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
      • January 24 » Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
      • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
      • July 19 » Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
      • October 30 » Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
      • December 10 » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
    

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