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Dorothy was the third eldest in a family of twenty children.
1743
May 6
| 1743 • Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo. |
1743
May 22
Age: 16d
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baptismWoodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Baptized in the First Congregational Church 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1743 • Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. |
1766
Jul 29
Age: 23y
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marriageHenry Franklin Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Married by the Reverend Abiel Leonard 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1766 • Jean-François Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. |
1778
Feb 6
Age: 34y
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birth of childHenry Tolman Franklin Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Henry Tolman had five older sisters, Mary, Lotheta, Dolly, Electa, and Dorothy, and a younger brother John. His oldest sister Mary was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1778 • American Revolutionary War: the Wyoming Massacre takes place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat of the local colonists. |
1823
Oct 27
Age: 80y
| 1823 • Joseph Smith, Jr. claimed in 1838 that on this day he had first come to the place where the golden plates were stored, having been directed there by God through an angel. |