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Personal data William Collins 


Household of William Collins

He is married to Martha Snell.

They got married on September 16, 1776 at Orange, Virginia, United States, he was 22 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Collins

Anthony Collins
1678-1754
Jane Lancelott
± 1685-1774
William Bartlett
1696-1774
Susannah Wyatt Davis
1700-1788

William Collins
1754-1786

1776

Martha Snell
1756-1833


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Historical events

Birthday February 19, 1754

  • The temperature on February 19, 1754 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer 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)
  • 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 1754: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
    • May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
    • July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

Day of marriage September 16, 1776

  • The temperature on September 16, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
    • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
    • June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
    • August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
    • September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
    • November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

Day of death June 3, 1786

  • The temperature on June 3, 1786 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
    • June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
    • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
    • September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
    • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
    • December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).


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