Name Info

Thomas Wilder ?1684-1704

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09115044
Gender.........male
Status.........deceased
Age............20y 0m 0d
Last-Marital...married
Fam-Group......MOORE
Fam-ID.........HOUGHTON
Citizenship....US born

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......2
#Events........1
#Images:.......0
#Comments......0
#Siblings......0
#Children......0

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Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
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Spouse?........husband
Sibling?.......brother
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Twin...........no
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Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1704
  2. Spouse: Susannah Pope, female, born:1684-10-07 , died:1704-1774 (19y 2m 25d) , Dad:John Pope, Mom:Beatrix HOUGHTON, #SrcDocs:2

Events
Birth
: ?1684
Married
: ?1704 , Age:20y 0m 0d, Role:groom
Death
: 1704-1774, Age:20y 0m 0d, ?Massachusetts

Places In
Massachusetts

Sources
Book Houghton Genealogy, John W. Houghton, 1912
Book John Houghton of Lancaster Massachusetts, Burr and Gage, 1925


Historical
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