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Personal data Edward Higby 


Household of Edward Higby

He is married to Lydia Smith.

They got married about 1661 at New London, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

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Birthday February 2, 1615

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1615: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 21 » The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
    • June 2 » The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
    • June 4 » Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.

Christening day February 2, 1616

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1616: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 12 » The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
    • February 26 » Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
    • March 20 » Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
    • May 3 » Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
    • July 11 » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
    • October 25 » Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

Day of death September 23, 1699

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1699: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 26 » For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
    • February 16 » First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
    • March 30 » Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
    • April 14 » Khalsa: The Sikh religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.


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Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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