♂ Jeremy Adams

1605 - 1683

Jeremy Adams
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Rebecca Baseden
Rebecca Baseden
1608 - 1689
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John Adams
John Adams
1638 - 1670

Jeremy Adams was one of the founding members of Hartford, Connecticut, and was official constable and inn-keeper of the colony.  His inn was used for meetings of the legislative body of the colony, on what is now mainstreet in Hartford.  A ridge called "Jeremy's Black" and a river "Jeremy's River" are both named after him.  (Located near Colchester, Connecticut.)

 

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1637


Age: 32y
1637 Scottish army officer Robert Monro publishes Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys in London, the first military history in English.

1638


Aug 26
Age: 33y
1638 • A mercenary army under Bernard de Saxe-Weimar fighting for France defeats imperial forces at the Battle of Rheinfelden.

1683


Aug 11
Age: 78y
1683 Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank (considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes).

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