♂ Evan Watkins

1709 - 1765

Evan Watkins
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Eleanor Watkins
Eleanor Watkins
1740 - 1764

Was the very first ferryman on the Potomac.

 

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1709

1728


Age: 19y
1728 October 23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the city's history) burns.
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1740


Age: 31y

birth of child


Eleanor Watkins
Watkins Ferry, Frederick, Virginia, USA ⇓
Her siblings names were Thomas, David, Peter, Jean, Ann, and Evan. She was second to youngest before Evan.
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1740 Maria Theresa inherits the hereditary dominions of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and modern-day Belgium) under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. However, her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman.

1741


Age: 32y
1741 Battle of Colachel: The Raja of Travancore defeats a Dutch East India Company naval expedition.

1765


Jul 1
Age: 56y

death


Fredericksburg County, Virginia, USA ⇓
Evan Watkins signed his will by his mark X on May 2, 1764 . It was probated August 6, 1765. It names seven children . All seven of these children were born in Old Frederick County, Virginia.
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1765 • The first chocolate factory in the United States is established by Dr. James Baker at Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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