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 • Samuel Richardson's popular and influential epistolatory novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is published in London. |
about
Age: 19y
1759
Age: 19y
marriageJames Van Deusen 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1759 • Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats. |
1762
Dec 25
Age: 23y
birth of childGrietje Margrieta Van Deusen 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1762 • Seven Years' War: The Battle of Havana concludes after more than two months with the surrender of Havana by Spain to Great Britain. |