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Abraham  Adams 

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1700 - 11/19/1762

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1713 - 1765
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Abraham Adams
11/22/1753 - 11/6/1822
Abraham Adams was born on November 22, 1753 somewhere in New Jersey and died on November 6, 1822 in Harlem, Ohio. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 69 years old.

Children of Abraham and Susannah: Elijah Adams 1779 – 1873 Mary Adams 1791 – 1868 Mary Ann Adams 1791 – 1872 Martha Adams 1798 – 1876 John Adams 1800 – 1872 Susannah Adams 1816 –
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16 1769 The first steam engine is invented by Watt
24 1777 The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier
30 1783 The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
32 1785 The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
40 1793 The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
46 1799 The Rosetta Stone was discovered
47 1800 The first battery was invented by Volta
54 1807 The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
61 1814 The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
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22 1775 NEWS HEADLINES: On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
23 1776 NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
47 1800 NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
58 1811 NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
59 1812 NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
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7 1760 The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
10 1763 Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies.
13 1766 Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America
20 1773 Angered by the tea tax of 1767 and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party.
21 1774 The First Continental Congress of fifty-five representatives (except from the colony of Georgia) meets in Philadelphia to discuss relations with Britain, the possibility of independence, and the hope of a peaceful solution. King George III scorns the thought of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
22 1775 On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
23 1776 July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
25 1778 Alliance between United States and France
34 1787 Constitution of the United States is signed
40 1793 Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
41 1794 The United States establishes the Navy
45 1798 Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
50 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
51 1804 The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
52 1805 Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a “horse path” through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
53 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
58 1811 By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
67 1820 The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands.
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3 1756 Seven Year's War begins
6 1759 Jesuits are forced out of France
10 1763 Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal
11 1764 Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items.
14 1767 Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America
26 1779 Spain declares war on England
27 1780 Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland
30 1783 Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
34 1787 Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
35 1788 Russia begins war with Sweden
36 1789 French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
39 1792 French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
40 1793 Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
42 1795 White Terror and bread riots in Paris
43 1796 Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
44 1797 Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa


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Susannah Formun
Born on June 4, 1755 and died on October 7, 1832
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The Children of Abraham Adams

Mary Ann Adams
Born somewhere in Pennsylvania on May 6, 1791 and died in Harlem, Ohio on August 2, 1872. She was about 81 years old.

Children of Mary Ann and John Budd: Miner Budd 1814 – unknown Inman Budd 1816 – unknown Remembrance Budd 1818 – unknown Eli Budd 1820 – 1867 Elijah Budd 1826 – 1852 John Budd Jr 1831 – unk...
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