♀ Rachel Holden

1779 - 1823

Rachel Holden
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Spouse
Josiah J Eastman
Josiah J Eastman
1779 - 1868
Children
Mary Eastman
Mary Eastman
1804 - 1845

Her and her husband, as well as Thomas Munsell Sr. were some of the first settlers of Licking County, Ohio.

 

Timeline

1804


Dec 5
Age: 26y
Thomas Munsell - 1830 United States Federal Census

birth of child


Mary Eastman
Corinth, Orange, Vermont, USA ⇓
She was born between 1800 and 1810 considering the 1830 & 1840 U.S. censuses, but if Josiah Eastman's 1820 census is taken into account, she would have been 16 or under in 1820. She was likely born around 1804.
This matches the Vermont birth record.
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1804 • Spain declares war on Britain

1810


Age: 31y
1810 Macon's Bill Number 2 becomes law in the United States, intending to motivate Britain and France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.

1815


Age: 36y

immigration


Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
Josiah was one of the first settlers there along with Thomas Munsell Sr.
"...In 1815 came Jonathan Atwood, Knowles Linnel, William Hastings, Isaac Longwell, Aaron Park, J Josiah Eastman, David Wright, J: R. Curtis, Stephen Emerson, John McCreary, Thomas Munsell, Daniel Vail, Japhet Sherman, and Abram Mayfield."
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1815 • The War of 1812 between the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom ends.

1820


Age: 41y
Josiah Eastman - 1820 United States Federal Census

residence


St. Albans, Licking, Ohio, USA ⇓
Josiah and Rachel Eastman are living six houses away from Thomas Munsell Sr, father of Mary Eastman's husband Thomas Munsell Jr.
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1820 Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.

1823


Dec 25
Age: 45y
1823 Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abdicates thus ending the short-lived First Mexican Empire.

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