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Personal data Benjamin Pieters Offringa 


Household of Benjamin Pieters Offringa

He is married to Zwaantje Durks.

They got married on October 26, 1777 at Drachten, gem. Smallingerland (Fr).Source 2


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Benjamin Pieters Offringa

Benjamin Pieters Offringa
1757-< 1791

1777

Zwaantje Durks
1748-1828

Aafke Benjamins Offringa
1778-1855

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Sources

  1. Herv. gem. Oudkerk en Roodkerk, doop 1652-1811
  2. Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Drachten 1674-1811

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Historical events

Christening day July 10, 1757

  • The temperature on July 10, 1757 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder. 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 1757: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
    • January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
    • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
    • June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
    • November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
    • December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

Day of marriage October 26, 1777

  • The temperature on October 26, 1777 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
    • July 7 » American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
    • August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
    • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
    • October 22 » American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
    • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

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