Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON

(b. 14 May 1794 , Nova Scotia, Canada d. abt. 1879 , Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON was born 14 May 1794 in Nova Scotia, Canada

Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON was the child of Scott NICKERSON and Lucretia Jane NICKERSON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Abner NICKERSON and Elizabeth BAKER (maternal) John NICKERSON and Jerusha KNOWLES

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Martha Patty (Pattie) married Hezekiah NEWELL abt. 1814 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hezekiah NEWELL was born 1 October 1793 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hezekiah died abt. 1850 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hezekiah was the child of Henry NEWELL and Eunice Elizabeth SMITH.

Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON died abt. 1879 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON married

Hezekiah NEWELL-- Date: abt. 1814 Place:
Hezekiah NEWELL was the child of Henry NEWELL and Eunice Elizabeth SMITH

Children of Hezekiah NEWELL and Martha Patty (Pattie) NICKERSON:

Armina NEWELL (b.6 September 1814, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada d. , )
m. Seth CUNNINGHAM 1843 in , Nova Scotia, Canada

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1794 Birth
14 May 1794
Nova Scotia, Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1814 Birth of Child
Armina NEWELL was born 6 September 1814, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Martha Patty (Pattie) was 20 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.