♂ Edward Higbee II

1652 - 1717

Edward Higbee II
Parents
Edward Higby
Edward Higby
1615 - 1699
Jedidiah Skidmore
Jedidiah Skidmore
1624 - 1660
Spouse
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
1660 - 1692
Children
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1652

1652 Religion: George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in England, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

1684


Mar 29
Age: 32y
1684 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

1685


Age: 33y
1685 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near ([http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/fla4.html Texas Handbook]).

1717


Age: 65y
1717 • Most recent rupture of New Zealand's Alpine Fault with an earthquake estimated to have had a magnitude between 7.8 and 8.1.

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