Vries/van der Lijn » Peter Eppes Harkema (± 1777-1826)
Personal data Peter Eppes Harkema
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- He was born about 1777.
(circa 1775, circa 1774)
- He was christened on December 14, 1774 in Loppersum, GR, NLD.
- Occupations:
- on November 24, 1811 .Source 2
Schipper
- on September 16, 1818 .Source 3
korenschipper
- on May 17, 1822 .Source 5
graanschipper
- on April 18, 1843 .Source 7
korenschipper
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//Harkema
- He died on May 19, 1826 in Loppersum, GR, NLD.
- A child of Eppe Roelfs and Hilje Peters
- This information was last updated on January 13, 2016.
Household of Peter Eppes Harkema
He is married to Jantje Wigbolts Bos.
They got married.
Child(ren):
- Hilje Pieters Harkema 1805-????
- Wigbolt Pieters Harkema 1803-1843
- Eppe Harkema 1811-????
- Jakob Harkema 1818-1905
- Roelf Eppes Harkema 1822-1909
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Sources
- Overlijden Wigbolt Pieters Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
father
- Geboorte Eppe Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
- Geboorte Jakob Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
- Overlijden Jakob Pieters Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
father
- Geboorte Roelf Eppes Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
- Overlijden Roelf Eppes Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
father
- Overlijden Wigbolt Pieters Harkema, Algemene akte, 13
Historical events
Christening day December 14, 1774
- The temperature on December 14, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen. 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
- May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
- June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
- September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
Day of death May 19, 1826
- The temperature on May 19, 1826 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1826: Source: Wikipedia
- May 22 » HMSBeagle departs on its first voyage.
- July 4 » John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively the second and third presidents of the United States, die the same day, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson survives."
- August 18 » Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
- September 11 » Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
- November 25 » The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
- December 25 » The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
Same birth/death day
- 1795 » James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
- 1795 » Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1729)
- 1798 » William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1722)
- 1821 » Camille Jordan, French lawyer and politician (b. 1771)
- 1825 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1760)
- 1831 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
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Vries, "Vries/van der Lijn", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-vries/I4579.php : accessed February 18, 2026), "Peter Eppes Harkema (± 1777-1826)".