Name Info

JOHN PRIEST 1681 MA to 1756 MA
Fathers:JOHN,JOHN,JAMES

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09000718
Gender.........male
Status.........deceased
Age............56y2m0d
Last-Marital...widowed
Fam-Group......MOORE
Fam-ID.........PRIEST
Citizenship....US born

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......3
#Events........1
#Images:.......1
#Comments......0
#Siblings......6
#Children......9

Person-Type....A
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........father
Spouse?........husband
Sibling?.......brother
Child?.........son
Twin...........no
Adopted?.......

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Ancestor.......ancestor
RelatedToMe....7XGreat
Gen-#..........10
Ahn-#..........00000000718
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Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: JOHN PRIEST, male, born:1650 Massachusetts, died:1704 (54y0m0d) ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:SARAH ALLERTON, #M:2, #SrcDocs:5
  2. Parent: RACHEL GARFIELD, female, born:1656-11-23 ?Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, died:1737-05-17 (80y5m24d) ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:SAMUEL GARFIELD, Mom:MARY BENFIELD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:3
  3. Sibling: Elizabeth PRIEST, female, born:1679-09-12 Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, died:1702-1769 (22y3m20d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #M:2, #SrcDocs:4
  4. Sibling: Daniel PRIEST, male, born:1686-07-19 Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, died:1723-10-09 (37y2m20d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:3
  5. Sibling: Gabriel PRIEST, male, born:1690 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1755 (65y0m0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:2
  6. Sibling: Mary PRIEST, female, born:1692 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1773 (81y0m0d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:2
  7. Sibling: Joseph PRIEST, male, born:1693 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1781 (88y0m0d) Berlin, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:2
  8. Sibling: Hannah PRIEST, female, born:1694 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1694-1784 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:RACHEL GARFIELD, #SrcDocs:1

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1705 ?Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts
  2. Spouse: ANNA HOUGHTON, female, born:1684-05-08 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN HOUGHTON, Mom:MARY FARRAR, #SrcDocs:4
  3. ..Child: Abigail PRIEST, female, born:1706 ?Massachusetts, died:?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  4. ..Child: Annah PRIEST, female, born:1707 Massachusetts, died:1708-1797 (1y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  5. ..Child: Mary PRIEST, female, born:1708 Massachusetts, died:1708-1798 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  6. ..Child: Damaris PRIEST, female, born:1709 Massachusetts, died:1710-1799 (1y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  7. ..Child: RACHEL PRIEST, female, born:1713 ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1744-1803 (31y0m0d) , Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:6
  8. ..Child: Hepzibah PRIEST, male, born:1716 Massachusetts, died:1716-1806 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  9. ..Child: Jonathan PRIEST, male, born:1718 Massachusetts, died:1718-1808 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  10. ..Child: Mariah PRIEST, female, born:1721 Massachusetts, died:1721-1811 (0y0m0d) , Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2
  11. ..Child: Jonathan PRIEST, male, born:1726 , died:Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRIEST, Mom:ANNA HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2

Events
Birth
: 1681-11-01y0m0d, Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts
Married
: ?1705 , Age:23y2m0d, ?Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Land
: 1738 , Age:56y2m0d, Harvard, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:seller
Death
: 1756-09-29, Age:74y10m28d, Bolton, Worcester county, Massachusetts

Places In
Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts
Bolton, Worcester county, Massachusetts
Harvard, Worcester county, Massachusetts

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Z__0030 - Map of Counties of Massachusetts


Sources
Book Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, Nourse, 1884
Book Genealogies of the Early Settlers of America (three volumes), H. Whittemore, 1898, 1967
Book Genealogy and Personal Memorials of Families of Boston, W.R. Cutter, 1908

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1681: Hungary - The Pasha of Buda supports rebellion led by Imre Thokoly in Hungary
1682-1683: Turkey - The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople
1682: Russia - Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696)
1682: Turkey - Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in 1684
1682: United States - La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France
1683: Austria - A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna
1683: Austria - The Battle of Vienna finishes the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire in southeastern Europe
1683: China - China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan
1685: France - Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France, King Charles II dies
1686-1700: Turkey, Russia - The Russo-Turkish War (third of ten), Russia wins
1687: England - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
1688-1689: Netherlands, England - The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic Invading England, England becomes a constitutional monarchy
1688-1691: Ireland - The War of the Two Kings in Ireland
1688-1697: France - The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War
1688: England - The Siege of Derry
1689: England, Ireland, Scotland - William ascends to the throne over England, Scotland, and Ireland
1689: England - John Locke publishes his first work called Letter Concerning Toleration
1689: Russia, China - The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China
1689: Scotland, England - Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1690: Ireland - The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1691: United States - Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony merge. This is in response to an attempt started in 1685 by King James II attempts to establish control over the colonies
1692: United States - Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. Over twenty people are hung for being witches.
1693-1694: France - Famine in France kills two million
1694: England - Mary II of England dies
1694: England - The Bank of England is established
1696-1697: Finland - Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population
1697: England - The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex
1699: England - Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society
1699: Turkey - The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War
1700-1721: Russia, Sweden - Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War
1700: Japan - The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude nine) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the coast of Japan is struck by a tsunami
1701-1702: England - The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England
1701-1714: Spain - War of the Spanish Succession (aka. Queen Anne's War) was a conflict which Involved most of Europe
1702-1715: France - Camisard Rebellion in France
1702: Japan - Forty-seven Ronin (aka. Forty-seven Samura) attack Kira Yoshinaka (court title of Ko-zuke no suke, a province overseer) and then commits seppuku (a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment, originally reserved only for samurai)
1703-1711: Austria - The Rakoczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy
1703: Russia - St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great, Russian capital until 1918
1704: Japan - End of Genroku period in Japan
1706: United States - Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston
1707: England, Scotland - Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain
1707: India - After the death of Aurangzeb, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces It
1707: India - War of 27 years between the Marathas and Mughals ends in India
1707: Japan - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan
1708-1709: Germany - Famine kills one third of the population of East Prussia
1708: East Indies - The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and English Company Trading to the East Indies merged to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies
1709: Afghanistan - Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan
1709: Russia, Sweden, Turkey - Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava
1710-1711: Russia, Turkey - Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War (fourth of ten), Turkish victory
1713-1714: India - Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu
1714: England - Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain, he rules until 1727
1715: England, Scotland - First Jacobite rebellion breaks out
1715: France - Louis XIV dies, leaving France deep in debt
1715: Italy - Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism Incompatible
1716: India - Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the India Pakistan border
1718-1730: Turkey - Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire
1718: United States - Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina Inlet on the Inner side of Ocracoke Island
1718: United States - City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America
1719: England, Scotland - Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1720-1721: France - The Great Plague of Marseille
1720: England, South America - The South Sea Bubble starts, It is a British joint stock company that tradez in South America, the company is granted a monopoly to trade in the Spanish South American colonies as part of a treaty during the War of Spanish Succession, the primary element of trade was slaves, in return, the company assumes the national debt England Incurs during the war
1720: Spain, Mexico - Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains
1721: China - Kangxi Emperor bans Christian Missionaries because of the decree by Pope Clement XI
1721: England - Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)
1721: Russia, Denmark, Poland, Sweden - Treaty of Nystad signed, ending the 21-year long Great Northern War, It was a coalition of numerous states that successfully contested Swedish supremacy in northern Central and Eastern Europe, Initially, the anti-Swedish alliance was composed of Peter the Great of Russia, Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway and August the Strong of Saxe-Poland-Lithuania
1721: Russia - Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church
1722-1723: Russia, Iran - Russo-Persian War
1722-1725: England, Ireland - Controversy over the halfpence of William Wood leads to the Drapier Letters and begins the Irish economic Independence from England movement
1722: Afghanistan, Iran - Afghans conquered Iran, overthrowing the Safavid Shah Soltan Hosein
1722: Africa - Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast
1722: China - Kangxi Emperor of China dies
1723-1730: Kazakhstan - The Great Disaster, an Invasion of Kazakh territories by the nomadic Dzungars
1723: Russi - Slavery abolished in Russia, Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs
1725: Africa - The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon (Guinea, West Africa) and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come
1726: China - The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing
1727-1729: England, Spain - Anglo-Spanish War
1729-1735: England - Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin the Methodism in England
1730-1760: England, United States - First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America, it challenges the established clergy and leads to many new Protestant denominations, this contributes to the concept of religious tolerance
1730: Turkey - Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire after the Patrona Halil revolt, ending the Tulip period
1732-1734: Russia, Ukraine - Crimean Tatar/Tartar raids into Russia
1732: United States - George Washington is born in Virginia
1733-1738: Poland - War of the Polish Succession
1735-1739: Russia, Turkey - Russo-Turkish War (fifth of ten), Russian victory
1735-1799: China - The Qianlong Emperor of China oversaw a huge expansion in territory
1735: United States - John Adams is born in Boston
1736: China - Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters recreate the classic panoramic painting by Zhang Zeduan called Along the River During Qingming Festival
1736: Iran - Nader Shah assumed title of Shah of Persia and founded the Afsharid dynasty, ruled until his death in 1747
1736: United States - Patrick Henry born
1737: United States - Alexander Hamilton born
1737: United States - John Hancock born
1738-1756: Mali - Famine across the Sahel, half the population of Timbuktu (Mali) died
1738: Italy - Pope Clement XII Issues the Eminenti Apostolatus Specula prohibiting Catholics from becoming Freemasons
1739: England, Spain, Caribbean - Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins Ear in the Caribbean
1739: India - Battle of Karnal, Nader Shah defeats the Mughals and sacks Delhi
1740-1741: Ireland - Famine in Ireland killed ten per cent of the population
1740-1748: Austria - War of the Austrian Succession
1740: England, Spain, United States - British attempt to capture St. Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish during the Siege of St. Augustine
1740: Germany - Frederick the Great comes to power in Prussia
1741: Italy - Pope Benedict XIV Issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery
1741: Russia, United States - Russians began settling the Aleutian Islands
1741: United States - Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin Stove, a very efficient stove that heats a house even after the fire extinguishes. Franklin chose to not patent his invention based on his belief that he instead should help others
1743: United States - Thomas Jefferson is born in Virginia
1744-1748: France, India - The First Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1744: France - French attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1744: Saudi Arabia - The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud
1745: England, Scotland - Second Jacobite Rebellion began by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland
1745: United States - John Jay born
1747: Afghanistan - Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the Durrani Empire in modern day Afghanistan
1748-1754: England, France, India - The Second Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1748: Austria - Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War
1748: United States - Benjamin Franklin retires from the printing business to pursue scientific matters
1750: Europe - Peak of the Little Ice Age [first suggested in 1939, this has since been disputed after more detailed research] that lasts another one hundred years
1751: United States - Jamaes Madison born
1752: United States - Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity with his famous kite flying experiment which was done in secrecy at the time. Later that same year he invents the lightning rod, one of the most perfect inventions because it continues to do its job without maintenance. It is still being used today by every tall building in the world.
1753: United States, France, England - Major George Washington, age 21, delivers a message to the French from the English King asking the French to leave North American, the French politely refuse
1754-1763,: United States, France, England - The French and Indian War, Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and French allies and the English and English allies, the North American chapter of the Seven Years War
1754: India - Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War (of three) and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic
1755-1763: Canada - The Great Upheaval, forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
1755: Portugal - The Lisbon earthquake
1756-1763: France, India - The Third Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1756-1763: globe - Seven Years War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world