Rebecca Doty
Parents
Spouse
John Irish
John Irish
1745 - 1777
Children
Lucretia Irish
Lucretia Irish
1772 - 1850
 

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1772


Age: 13y

1772


Age: 13y

marriage


John Irish
They were married as John Irish was on his way north from Nine Partners, and settled in Tinmouth.
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1772 Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean.

1777


Age: 18y

event


Danby, 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."
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1777 American Revolution: The Marquis de Lafayette lands near Georgetown, South Carolina, to help the Continental Congress train its army.

1780


Apr 2
Age: 21y

marriage


Danby, 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.
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1780 Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey distillery begins operation in Kentucky.

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