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Margaret Lackey and her husband had 13 children, 6 girls and 7 boys. Their home was known far and wide as a place of true hospitality. Described as having had brown eyes and black hair, Margaret was known as "Aunt Peggy" to the many relatives who came to visit the Old Miller Homestead in Rockbridge. As the Millers, Uncle Sam and Aunt Pegg were known widely and were greatly beloved.
1767
| 1767 • William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront. |
1760
Nov 1
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birth of childSamuel Boggs Miller Sr. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1760 • Seven Years' War – Battle of Kloster-Kamp: Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the Rhine by a French army. |
1787
Dec 19
Age: 21y
marriageSamuel Miller Sr. Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1787 • Prussian troops enter the Dutch Republic. Within a few weeks 40,000 Patriots (out of a population of 2,000,000) go into exile in France (and learn from observation the ideals of the French Revolution). |
1805
Apr 6
Age: 38y
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birth of childSamuel Miller Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1805 • Napoleonic Wars |
1850
Dec 3
Age: 84y
| 1850 • St. Mary’s Institute (the future University of Dayton) is founded in Dayton, OH. |
1854
Age: 87y
| 1854 • Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus defines ex Cathedra the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. |
1854
burialRockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Buried at Miller-Irwin Cemetery. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1854 • James Ambrose Cutting takes out the first of his three United States patents for improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography). |