Generation 10

Generation 10, more fall out while picking up more New England families.  

• Lathrop ancestors #512 - #570
• Dove ancestors #592 - #626
• Butler ancestors #648 - #688
• Robertson ancestors #704 - #748
• Gurley ancestors #848 - #895
• Colclasure ancestors #902 - #955
• Fitzgerald ancestors #960 - #989

We'll be looking at people living in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. 

And immigrants from England, Germany, Holland and Ireland.

This generation spans the years 1622 through 1838.  

• 1620 founding of Plymouth Colony by Pilgrims
• 1624 Virginia created as royal colony
• 1630 Boston, Massachusetts founded by Puritans
• 1633 smallpox ravishes Plymouth Colony
• 1634-1638 Pequot War in Massachusetts & Connecticut
• 1635 Hartford, Connecticut founded
• 1634 Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore for Catholics
• 1635 Connecticut founded 
• 1636 Harvard University founded
• 1638 Delaware founded by New Sweden Company
• 1653 North Carolina founded by Virginians
• 1657 measles outbreak in Boston
• 1660-1685 King Charles II reigns over England
• 1663 South Carolina established by royal charter
• 1664 New Jersey & New York founded
• 1664 Virginians massacred by Indians
• 1664 Peter Stuyesant loses New Netherland to English who rename it New York
• 1675 King Philip's War in Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Island
• 1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
• 1682 Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
• 1685-1688 James II monarch of England
• 1688 Glorious Revolution brings William & Mary to English throne
• 1689 King William's War first of the French & Indian wars
• 1692 Salem witch trials
• 1693 College of William & Mary founded in Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1701 Yale University founded
• 1702-1714 Queen Anne rules in England
• 1702 Queen Anne's War 
• 1713-1715 measles epidemic in New England
• 1714 mercury thermometer invented 
• 1714-1727 George I, first Hanoverian monarch in England
• 1727-1760 George II rules in England
• 1732 influenza throughout the American colonies; George Washington born
• 1734 Great Awakening led by God & Jonathan Edwards
• 1736 Patrick Henry born in Virginia
• 1737 yellow fever outbreak in Virginia
• 1742 Franklin stove developed by Benjamin Franklin - made for warmer rooms as it set out from the wall unlike a fireplace which is in the wall
• 1743 Thomas Jefferson born in Virginia
• 1746 Princeton University founded
• 1747 Benjamin Franklin publishes first Poor Richard's Almanack
• 1749 lightning rods developed by Benjamin Franklin
• 1754 French & Indian War
• 1760 George III comes to the throne, you know what's next
• 1764 Sugar Act
• 1765 Stamp Act & Quartering Act followed by riots organized by the Sons of Liberty
• 1767 Townshend Acts
• 1768 British army occupies Boston
• 1770 Boston Massacre
• 1773 Tea Act & Boston Tea Party
• 1774 Minutemen militia groups formed; 1st Continental Congress formed
• 1775 Battles of Lexington & Concord, the American Revolution is on
• 1775-1781 2nd Continental Congress
• 1780 Benedict Arnold becomes traitor to the cause
• 1781 Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown
• 1783 Treaty of Paris officially ends the war
• 1787 Congress begins sales of "western lands"; Delaware, Pennsylvania & New Jersey becomes states
• 1788 Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia & New York becomes states
• 1789 North Carolina becomes a state
• 1789 U.S. Constitution ratified and George Washington becomes president
• 1790 Rhode Island becomes state; first federal census taken
• 1791 Bill of Rights ratified; Vermont gains statehood
• 1792 Kentucky county of Virginia made a state
• 1793 influenza, typhus & yellow fever epidemics
• 1796 John Adams elected president
• 1796 Tennessee becomes a state
• 1799 George Washington died
• 1800 Thomas Jefferson elected president
• 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the United States; yellow fever outbreak
• 1803 Ohio made a state 
• 1804 Lewis & Clark expedition - traveled 7,689 miles in 863 days
• 1806 National Road funded; Zebulon Pike explores Colorado
• 1809 James Madison becomes president
• 1812 War of 1812
• 1816 The Year without Summer; Indiana becomes a state
• 1817 James Monroe becomes president
• 1818 Illinois becomes a state
• 1820 Missouri Compromise
• 1821 Missouri enters the union
• 1822 Texas established as American colony

Revised 12/22/2020