Among the passengers on board an immigrant ship sailing from Northern Ireland in 1748 were a Leech family of seven and Thomas Lackey. Five of the Leeches died at sea, leaving only 18 year old Agnes and her 9 year old brother John. Many of these immigrants settled in Lancaster, where Thomas Lackey married Agnes in 1754. They and Agnes' brother John and his wife Martha (McComb) moved to the Shenandoah Valley, in what is now Rockbridge Virginia.
1730
| 1730 • Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated. |
about
Age: 17y
1747
Age: 17y
immigrationLancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Five of the Leeches died at sea, leaving only 18 year old Agnes with her 9 year old brother John upon arrival in America. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1747 • War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands. |
1754
Age: 24y
|
marriageThomas Lackey Sr. Londonderry, Ireland ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1754 • Osman III (1754–1757) succeeds Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor. |
1767
Age: 37y
|
birth of childMargaret Lackey Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1767 • Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is first published. |
1768
Age: 38y
|
|
residenceRockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Thomas Lackey and Agnes Leech, along with her brother John and his wife Martha, moved to Shenandoah Valley, settling two miles west the Natural Bridge in what is now Rockbridge County. The large outside chimney of the old home still stands. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1768 • Louis Antoine de Bougainville discovers the Bougainville Strait and Bougainville Island. |
1814
Sep 23
Age: 84y
| 1814 • Battle of Craonne: Napoleon is victorious against von Blücher. |