Staley ancestry » James Trusler Sr (1755-1844)
Personal data James Trusler Sr
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10- He was born on November 17, 1755 in Amherst County, VA.Sources 2, 4, 5, 7
- Resident:
- on March 4, 1831: Franklin, Indiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 5
- Indiana, United States.Source 10
- on 1833;1851: Indiana,Indiana.Source 10
- in the year 1830: Franklin, Indiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
- Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne, Indiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 8
- He died on September 5, 1844 in Blooming Grove, Franklin, Indiana, United States, he was 88 years old.Sources 2, 4, 7
- He is buried in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, United States of America.Source 7
- A child of Thomas Samuel Trusler and Hannah Keys
Household of James Trusler Sr
He is married to Susannah Wilson.
They got married July 4, 1776 at Augusta County, Virginia, he was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
- Goodhart Trusler 1777-????
- Thomas Trusler 1780-????
- Sarah Adair 1781-1872
- Lucy Trusler 1788-1874
- Mary Trusler 1788-????
- Jane (Jennie) Trusler 1792-1835
- James Trusler 1793-1880
- John Trusler 1793-1850
- Samuel Wilson Trusler 1795-1846
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Sources
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- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, Volume: 322 / Ancestry.com
- 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, 1830; Census Place: Franklin, Indiana; Series: M19; Roll: 27; Page: 318; Family History Library Film: 0007716 / Ancestry.com
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 111 : 1914 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Hatcher, Patricia Law, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 4; Serial: 12978; Volume: 2 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815, Direct Data Capture, comp / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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Historical events
Birthday November 17, 1755
- The temperature on November 17, 1755 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen sneeuw. 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 1755: Source: Wikipedia
- January 25 » Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- February 13 » Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
- April 2 » Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
- April 15 » Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
- July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
- November 1 » In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
Day of death September 5, 1844
- The temperature on September 5, 1844 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1844: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- February 27 » The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 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.
- May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
- 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.
- June 15 » Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 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.
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- 1749 » Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning († 1841)
- 1753 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist († 1815)
- 1755 » Louis XVIII, king of France († 1824)
- 1765 » Jacques MacDonald, French general († 1840)
- 1769 » Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1818)
- 1803 » Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1836 » Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790)
- 1838 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764)
- 1857 » Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
- 1876 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877 » Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
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