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John Bourne Jr. was only 14 when his father died. He inherited the family plantation and became the head of the household. He married at age 19 to Sarah Ramsey, who bore him three children before her death. After the death of Sarah in 1734, John sold the plantation and moved to Culpepper County, Va. where he met and married Eleanor Davis. John and Eleanor had 11 children.
1707
Sep
| 1707 • A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan). |
about
Age: 17y
1725
Age: 17y
marriageSarah Ramsey Fredericksburg, Essex, Virginia, USA ⇓ |
| 1725 • Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia on the death of her husband, Peter the Great. |
about
Age: 26y
1734
Age: 26y
| 1734 • The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland. |
1737
Age: 29y
| 1737 • The direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
1737
Age: 29y
marriageEllen Eleanor Davis 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1737 • The oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The News Letter, is founded in Belfast, Ireland. |
1765
Sep
Age: 58y
birth of childCatherine Bourne Virginia, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1765 • The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, imposing the first direct tax levied from Great Britain on the thirteen American colonies. This is to help pay for British military operations in North America. |
1774
Mar
Age: 66y
deathCulpepper County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Possibly from a fall from his horse. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1774 • The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1771–1772) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit. |