Stephenson Family Tree » Benjamin Leeds (1637-1717)

Personal data Benjamin Leeds 

  • He was born in the year 1637.
  • He was christened on July 14, 1637 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
  • He died on March 13, 1717 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, he was 80 years old.
  • He is buried in the year 1717 in Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
  • This information was last updated on October 18, 2023.

Household of Benjamin Leeds

He is married to Mary Brinsmade.

They got married on July 16, 1667, he was 30 years old.

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Christening day July 14, 1637

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1637: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 15 » Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
    • February 18 » Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
    • May 26 » Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
    • September 29 » 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.

Day of death March 13, 1717

  • The temperature on March 13, 1717 was about 6.0 °C. 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 1717: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
    • March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
    • March 31 » A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
    • July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
    • August 17 » Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
    • August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.


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