Sunday, November 20, 2016

Research Log - 300 Years Ago

1716
January
6 - Ruth Rockwell born Connecticut daughter of Josiah & Rebecca (Loomis) Rockwell
11 - Eunice Cobb md. Benadam Gallop in Massachusetts

February
10 - James Stuart flees Scotland 
29 - Leap Day

March
Samuel Clark died in Essex Co., New Jersey
30 - Charity Hodges born in Norton, MA, daughter of Joseph & Bethiah (Williams) Hodges

May
31 - Anne Stribling born St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., VA daughter of Joel & Mary (--?--) Stribling, twin
31 - Benjamin Stribling born St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., VA, son of Joel & Mary (--?--) Stribling, twin
June
2 - Hannah (Eccles) Brooks died in Concord, MA
10 - Timothy Janes born Lebanon, CT son of William & Abigail (Loomis) Janes

July
6 - Abigail Southworth born Middleboro, MA, daughter of Ichabod & Esther (Hodges) Southworth
15 - Philip Hocker baptized St. Barnabas Church, Prince Georges Co., MD, son of Nicholas & Sophia (Sim) Hocker
17 - Timothy Janes baptized First Congregational Church, Lebanon, CT, son of William & Abigail (Loomis) Janes

September
6 - first American lighthouse built in Boston 

November 
26 - first lion exhibited in America in Boston

Sometime in 1716
Mary (Sherwood) Fitch md. Joseph Bradford ca. 1716 in Massachusetts
Demaris (--?--) Perkins died in Massachusetts
Ann Crow died Wethersfield, Connecticut
Susanna (--?--) Hocker born in Maryland
Blackbeard given command of ship in the Bahamas
Natchez, Mississippi founded

No comments: