♂ Evan Watkins

1709 - 1765

Evan Watkins
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Eleanor Watkins
Eleanor Watkins
1740 - 1764

Was the very first ferryman on the Potomac.

 

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1728


Age: 19y
1728 August 29 city of Nuuk founded in Greenland as fort Godt-Haab by royal governor Claus Paarss.
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1740


Age: 31y

birth of child


Eleanor Watkins
Watkins Ferry, Frederick, Virginia, USA ⇓
Her siblings names were Thomas, David, Peter, Jean, Ann, and Evan. She was second to youngest before Evan.
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1740 Frederick II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Frederick William I.

1741


Age: 32y
1741 • John Edwards gives "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" sermon

1764


Age: 55y
1764 Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto "a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto", the first Gothic novel

1765


Jul 1
Age: 56y

death


Fredericksburg County, Virginia, USA ⇓
Evan Watkins signed his will by his mark X on May 2, 1764 . It was probated August 6, 1765. It names seven children . All seven of these children were born in Old Frederick County, Virginia.
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1765 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house in Switzerland is stoned by a mob.

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