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1759
| 1759 • The Germantown Union School (now called "Germantown Academy"), America's oldest nonsectarian day school, is founded. |
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Age: 13y
1772
Age: 13y
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birth of childLucretia Irish Vermont, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1772 • Basque-Spanish explorer Domingo de Bonechea in the Aguila sights Tauere atoll which he names San Simon y Judas. |
1772
Age: 13y
marriageJohn Irish They were married as John Irish was on his way north from Nine Partners, and settled in Tinmouth. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1772 • The British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island. |
1777
Age: 18y
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eventDanby, Vermont, USA ⇓ Rebecca's husband is shot and killed, after being suspected as a Tory, even though his involvement, being a Quaker, was unlikely. The story goes that after his death, Rebecca "left within the twelve days - traveled on foot with her three children to Danby, a distance of seven miles, through the uninterrupted forests of the then wilderness country, rendered doubly gloomy by the fitful gusts and wails of a bleak November wind." She would have been around 20 years old, with her daughter Lucretia who was 5, son Joseph who was around 3, and a baby, Rhoda. They would go to live with her husband's family, who were complete strangers. Their home was later pillaged of all their belongings shortly after they were gone. Rebecca's personal account was first published in 1855 in the Rutland Herald newspaper by C. H. Congdon, and it says of her that she was "a high spirited woman, with a temperment rather sanguine than otherwise, and her villifiers, with all their heroism, did not confront her." 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1777 • American Revolution: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania. |
1780
Apr 2
Age: 21y
marriageDanby, Vermont, USA ⇓ She married secondly Stutely Strafford at twenty one years old, and they would have six known children. They would later move to South Wallingford, Vermont. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1780 • The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication. |