February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: A.W.M. (Dolf) van der Valk, "Family tree Van der Valk", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-der-valk/I8922.php : accessed June 14, 2024), "Dirk Vrederiksz (Fr) Schermer (± 1755-< 1823)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.