Lathrops and allied families are in Massachusetts and Connecticut and we've reached the New England immigrant generation. The Doves are now represented by Beasley, Overall, Jones, Denton, Thornes & O'Dell families in Virginia and New York.
The Robertson clan through the Clark line has shifted north to New Jersey while the Maulding contingent is still in Virginia.
Gurleys represented by Morehead, Morgan and Doggett are firmly established in Virginia, while other branches are in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Lastly, the Colclasures are in Pennsylvania and eastward into Maryland and Delaware.
- Lathrop ancestors #1024 - #1087
- Dove ancestors #1184 - #1237
- Robertson ancestors #1408 - #1475
- Gurley ancestors #1696 - #1789
- Colclasure ancestors #1804 - #1911
This generation spans the years 1588 to 1792 taking in migration to the America during the colonial era through the American Revolution and into the first ten years of the American republic.
- 1588 Sir Francis Drake & the English navy sink the Spanish Armada
- 1593 William Shakespeare publishes first play
- 1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies age 69
- 1603-1625 James I king of England, responsible for the King James version of Bible
- 1607 Jamestown, VA settled
- 1620 founding of Plymouth Colony by Pilgrims
- 1625-1649 Charles I king of England, executed
- 1630 founding of Boston
- 1634 Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore for Catholics
- 1634-1638 Pequot War in Massachusetts & Connecticut
- 1635 Connecticut founded by Thomas Hooker
- 1636 Harvard University founded
- 1638 Delaware founded by New Sweden Company
- 1642-1651 English Civil War
- 1649-1653 Council of State ruling England
- 1653 North Carolina founded by the Virginians (always taken credit for something)
- 1653-1659 Oliver Cromwell & Richard Cromwell, Protectorate of England
- 1660-1685 Charles II on English throne
- 1663 South Carolina founded by royal charter
- 1664 New Jersey founded by Lord Berkeley & Sir George Carteret
- 1664 New York founded by Duke of York
- 1664 Peter Stuyvesant loses New Netherland to England, name changed to New York
- 1665 400 Virginia colonists killed by Indians
- 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 king of England
- 1688 Glorious Revolution brings William & Mary to the throne, they rule until 1702
- 1689 King William's War, first of a series known as the French & Indian Wars
- 1692 Salem witch trials
- 1693 College of William & Mary founded
- 1701 Yale University founded
- 1702-1714 Queen Anne on English throne
- 1714-1727 George I ushers in the house of Hanover
- 1727-1760 George II continues the Hanoverian rule of England
- 1734 Great Awakening ignited by God & Jonathan Edwards
- 1736 Patrick Henry born in Virginia
- 1746 Princeton University founded
- 1747 Benjamin Franklin publishes first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack
- 1747-48 winter - record snowfalls in most of colonial America
- 1754 French & Indian War, George Washington's first command
- 1754 Columbia University founded
- 1755 University of Pennsylvania founded
- 1760 George III becomes king of England and things go downhill from there
- 1764 Sugar Act
- 1765 Stamp Act, Quartering Act followed by riots started by the Sons of Liberty
- 1766 Stamp Act repealed
- 1767 Townshend Acts
- 1768 British Army occupies Boston
- 1770 Boston Massacre
- 1773 Tea Act & Boston Tea Party
- 1774 Minutemen militia established; Intolerable Acts against Massachusetts; 1st Continental Congress meets
- 1775 Battles of Lexington & Concord and the American Revolution begins
- 1775-1781 2nd Continental Congress
- 1776 Declaration of Independence
- 1780 Benedict Arnold becomes rat fink
- 1781 Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown
- 1783 Treaty of Paris officially ends the war
- 1787 Congress starts selling public lands in the "west"
- 1789 U.S. Constitution ratified & George Washington becomes president
- 1791 Bill of Rights ratified
Life expectancy for women in Virginia was about 39 and in New England 62. For men of Virginia it was 48 and in New England nearly 70. Prevalent diseases were smallpox, plague, malaria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles and scurvy depending upon one's location.
American Revolution War casualty estimates - Patriots 25,000, British 19,640, German 6,354
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