♂ Ephraim Herrick

1638 - 1693

Ephraim Herrick
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Spouse
Mary Cross
Mary Cross
1640
Children

Lived on a farm at Birch Plain, given to him by his father.

1638

1638 • The Treaty of Hartford is signed, ending the Pequot War between British American colonists and the Pequot.

1668


Apr 29
Age: 30y
1668 Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope[http://books.google.com/books?id=32IDpTdthm4C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=newton+reflecting+telescope++1668+letter+1669&source=bl&ots=PKABaGwPaN&sig=rPS8w23_nAp3kH5YMYGZ7JHhOaI&hl=en&ei=0QC1Svf7AsWb8Aa3nqGTDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=newton%20reflecting%20telescope%20%201668%20letter%201669&f=false Isaac Newton: adventurer in thought, by Alfred Rupert Hall, page 67] (Newton's reflector).

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