♀ Christian Gissage

1702 - 1779

 

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Christian Gissage
Parents
Richard G Gissage
Richard G Gissage
1657 - 1703
Sarah Shelton
Sarah Shelton
1678 - 1733
Spouse
John Poindexter
John Poindexter
1696 - 1753
Children
Frances Poindexter
Frances Poindexter
1737 - 1776

1778


Jun 25
Age: 75y
John Poindexter - Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin by Sarah Travers Lewis Scott Anderson

will


Louisa County, Virginia, USA ⇓
Her will names "Children: John, William, Joseph, Richard, Frances Anderson, Anne Slaughter, Sarah Trion, and grandson William Poindexter Jr. Frances Anderson is dead – her part to her children; also to dec'd son Richard's two daus, Christian & Feby. Executors are John, William & Joseph Poindexter."
2 Sources ⇓
1778 South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

1779


May
Age: 76y
1779 American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history until Pearl Harbor.

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