RanHam Tree » Capt William John Twitty (1719-1775)
Personal data Capt William John Twitty
Source 1Sources 2, 3- He was born in the year 1719 in Goochland, Virginia.Sources 3, 4
- He died on March 28, 1775 in Little Twitty's Fort, Between Richmond &, Berea, Madison County (near Lexington) Kentucky, he was 56 years old.Sources 3, 5
- He is buried in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, United States of America.Source 3
- A child of John Twitty and Mary Wynne
Household of Capt William John Twitty
(1) He is married to Susannah "Susan" Bellars (Belton) Twitty.
They got married in the year 1760 at Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, he was 41 years old.
Child(ren):
- Anthony Twitty 1745-1816
- Captain William Lynch Twitty 1761-1816
- Russell Twitty 1762-1834
- Susan Bell Twitty 1763-1825
- Bellaria Twitty 1763-1825
- Mary TWITTY McFadden 1764-1830
Child(ren):
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Historical events
Day of death March 28, 1775
- The temperature on March 28, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen hagel. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
- May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
- October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
- November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
- December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Same birth/death day
- 1687 » Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
- 1794 » Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1818 » Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755)
- 1865 » Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
- 1866 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
- 1868 » James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
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