Genealogy for
Rachel Ladson
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Rachel Ladson
1720 - 1820
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Rachel Ladson was born about 1720 in an unknown place and died in an unknown year in an unknown place. Dates for birth and death are estimated.
PLEASE NOTE: We have not yet confirmed that Rachel is the mother of Jonas Bailey. We are posting this information on the website in order to collect more facts and hope that someone else can contribute additional information. | 
 | Marriage | 10/17/1754 | SC | 34 yrs old | | Name: Richard Baley,
Spouse: Rachel Ladson,
Marriage Date: Oct.17, 1754,
Source: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol 10, # 3 |
| Marriage | 2/7/1766 | SC | 46 yrs old | | Name: Rachel Bailey ,
Spouse: Thos Bur,
Marriage Date: Feb. 7, 1766,
Source: South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799. |
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| 32 |
1752 |
Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752. |
| 49 |
1769 |
The first steam engine is invented by Watt |
| 57 |
1777 |
The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier |
| 63 |
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. |
| 65 |
1785 |
The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth. |
| 73 |
1793 |
The cotton gin was invented by Whitney. |
| 79 |
1799 |
The Rosetta Stone was discovered |
| 80 |
1800 |
The first battery was invented by Volta |
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1807 |
The first steamboat was invented by Fulton |
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1814 |
The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson |
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| 29 |
1749 |
Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah. |
| 55 |
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. |
| 56 |
1776 |
NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created. |
| 80 |
1800 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC |
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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. |
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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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1730 |
Map of US Colonies |
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1732 |
James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled. |
| 27 |
1747 |
The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City |
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1750 |
Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist. |
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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". |
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1763 |
Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 56 |
1776 |
July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created. |
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1778 |
Alliance between United States and France |
| 67 |
1787 |
Constitution of the United States is signed |
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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. |
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1794 |
The United States establishes the Navy |
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1798 |
Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida, |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans. |
| 84 |
1804 |
The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL. |
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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. |
| 86 |
1806 |
Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread. |
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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. |
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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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1738 |
System of forced labor to build roads in France is devised by Jean Orry |
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1743 |
King George's War against North America and Caribbean begins |
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1748 |
King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends |
| 36 |
1756 |
Seven Year's War begins |
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1759 |
Jesuits are forced out of France |
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1763 |
Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal |
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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. |
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1767 |
Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America |
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1779 |
Spain declares war on England |
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1780 |
Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland |
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1783 |
Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River |
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1787 |
Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey |
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1788 |
Russia begins war with Sweden |
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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 |
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1792 |
French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year |
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1793 |
Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland. |
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1795 |
White Terror and bread riots in Paris |
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1796 |
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais |
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1797 |
Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa |
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| Richard Bailey
Born about 1720 and died about 1765.
They were married 10/17/1774.
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|  | | Thomas Bur
Born about 1720 and died about 1820.
They were married 2/7/1776.
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The Children of Rachel Ladson
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Jonas Bailey Sr.
Born in an unknown place about 1750 and died in Marion Co., South Carolina about 1830. He was about 80 years old.
children:
- William (abt.1769 to 7/1838),
- Matthew (abt. 1770 to abt. 1840),
- Jonas (abt. 1774 to 6/1860),
- Christopher (1789 to abt. 1870), ...
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