♂ Samuel Manning

1644 - 1711

Samuel Manning
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Parents
William Manning
William Manning
1614 - 1690
Spouse
Abiel Wight
Abiel Wight
1653 - 1713
Children

Samuel Manning was a town clerk for six years, a selectman for nine years, and a deputy to the General Court from 1695-6.  Him and his wife had twelve children.

 

Timeline

1673


May 6
Age: 28y
1673 • In the American colonies, a Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands the surrender of New York.

1695


Age: 50y

occupation


Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
From 1695-6, he was a deputy to the General Court. At the time, the colonial assembly not only met as the judicial court of appeals, but also created laws. The court was called the "Great and General Court" all the way until 1780.
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1695 • English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth and silk weavers picket the House of Commons of England.

1710


Feb 21
Age: 65y
1710 Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.

1711


Feb 22
Age: 66y
1711 Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Carolina, sails an armed brigantine up the Chowan River to attack Governor Hyde's forces fortified at Colonel Thomas Pollock's plantation. The attack fails and Cary's forces retreat.

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