♂ Samuel Morehouse

1642 - 1687

Samuel Morehouse
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Thomas Morehouse
Thomas Morehouse
???? - 1658
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1666


Age: 24y
1666 Mughal forces of Emperor Aurangzeb, in alliance with the Portuguese, under Shaista Khan and his son Buzurg Umed Khan expel the Arakans from the Bengal port city of Chittagong, renaming the city as Islamabad.

1675


Age: 33y

occupation


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
Lieutenant and County Marshall from 1675 to 1687.
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1675 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek begins to use a microscope for observing human tissues and liquids.

1687


Dec 9
Age: 46y

will


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
Mentions wife, sons Samuel, Thomas (Exec'r), John, Daniel (land in Concord field), James; daughters Rebecca, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Ann, last three under eighteen.
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1687 Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia, is published by the Royal Society of London. In it, Newton describes his theory of universal gravitation, explains the laws of mechanics and gives a formula for the speed of sound. The writing of Principia Mathematica ushers in a tidal wave of changes in thought, significantly accelerating the scientific revolution by providing new and practical intellectual tools and becomes the foundation of modern physics.

burial


Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ⇓
At the Old Burying Ground in Fairfield. His is the oldest stone in the whole ground.
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