Staley ancestry » Elijah Barnett (1776-± 1846)

Birthday September 12, 1776

• The temperature on September 12, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 2 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
  • March 17 » American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
  • July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
  • September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
  • November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1739 » Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist († 1815)
• 1740 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic († 1817)
• 1768 » Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher († 1831)
• 1797 » Samuel Joseph May, American activist († 1871)
• 1812 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist († 1878)
• 1812 » Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press († 1886)