♂ Josiah J Eastman

1779 - 1868

Josiah J Eastman
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Parents
Edmund Eastman
Edmund Eastman
1752 - 1838
Mary Davis
Mary Davis
1752 - 1836
Spouse
Rachel Holden
Rachel Holden
1779 - 1823
Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith
1782 - 1877
Children
Mary Eastman
Mary Eastman
1804 - 1845

Him and Thomas Munsell Sr. were some of the first settlers of Licking County, Ohio.

1800


Age: 20y
1800 • The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.

1804


Dec 5
Age: 25y
Thomas Munsell - 1830 United States Federal Census

birth of child


Mary Eastman
Corinth, Orange, Vermont, USA ⇓
She was born between 1800 and 1810 considering the 1830 & 1840 U.S. censuses, but if Josiah Eastman's 1820 census is taken into account, she would have been 16 or under in 1820. She was likely born around 1804.
This matches the Vermont birth record.
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1804 • Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by the HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.

1815


Age: 35y

immigration


Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
Josiah was one of the first settlers there along with Thomas Munsell Sr.
"...In 1815 came Jonathan Atwood, Knowles Linnel, William Hastings, Isaac Longwell, Aaron Park, J Josiah Eastman, David Wright, J: R. Curtis, Stephen Emerson, John McCreary, Thomas Munsell, Daniel Vail, Japhet Sherman, and Abram Mayfield."
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1815 • The first full-blooded European native born in New Zealand, Thomas King, is born in the Bay of Islands.

1820


Age: 40y
Josiah Eastman - 1820 United States Federal Census

residence


St. Albans, Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
Josiah and Rachel Eastman are living six houses away from Thomas Munsell Sr, father of Mary Eastman's husband Thomas Munsell Jr.
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1820 John Stuart Mill sets out on his formative boyhood trip to France.

1824


Jan 21
Age: 44y
1824 • The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals (the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day).

1840


Age: 60y
Josiah Eastman - 1840 United States Federal Census

residence


St. Albans, Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
He's living on page 338 - on page 343 is living a Mahlon Holden.
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1840 Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

1850


Age: 70y
Josiah Eastman - 1850 United States Federal Census

residence


St. Albans, Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
He is married to Abigail, and is living with his daughter Rosina's family. Rosina married Elisha Belknap, who was later a veteran of the Civil War.
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1850 University of Rochester is founded in Rochester, NY.

1860


Age: 80y
Josiah Eastman - 1860 United States Federal Census

residence


St. Albans, Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
He and Abigail are still living with his daughter Rosina's family.
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1860 U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

1868


Apr 28
Age: 89y

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