The Forgotten Ones » Elizabeth Shewell (1741-1817)

Personal data Elizabeth Shewell 

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Household of Elizabeth Shewell

She is married to Benjamin West.

They got married on September 2, 1765 at Trafalgar, London, England, she was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Raphael Lamar West  1766-1850
  2. Benjamin Franklin West  1772-1848 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Elizabeth Shewell

Elizabeth Shewell
1741-1817

1765

Benjamin West
1738-1820


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Historical events

  • The temperature on November 1, 1741 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1741: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
    • March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
    • May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
    • July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
    • August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
    • September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
  • The temperature on September 2, 1765 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
  • The temperature on December 6, 1817 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
    • March 8 » The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
    • June 5 » The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
    • October 16 » Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
    • October 17 » The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
    • October 30 » Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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Ken E Austin II, "The Forgotten Ones", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-forgotten-ones/P52936.php : accessed June 14, 2024), "Elizabeth Shewell (1741-1817)".