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Personal data Rebecca Sparrow 


Household of Rebecca Sparrow

She is married to Thomas Freeman.

They got married on December 31, 1673 at Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, she was 18 years old.

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Birthday October 30, 1655

  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1655: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
    • April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
    • May 19 » The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
    • August 23 » Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
    • December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

Day of death February 7, 1740

  • The temperature on February 7, 1740 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.


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