♀ Elizabeth Smith

1740

 

Smidt

Elizabeth Smith
Spouse
James Van Deusen
James Van Deusen
1733 - 1820
Children

Her name was originally Smidt, and her father came over from Germany.  In the latter years of her life she became blind, and passed away at the home of her son Robert.  Her and James had five children.

1740

1740 Frederick II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Frederick William I.
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1759


Age: 19y
1759 • The Germantown Union School (now called "Germantown Academy"), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded.

1762


Dec 25
Age: 23y
1762 • The Great Holocaust of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, around 30,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter.

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