Mary BUSHEE

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abt. 1815 , Swansea, Massachusetts, USA

Died

17 August 1880 , Swansea, Massachusetts, USA

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John BUSHEE

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Patience SALISBURY

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Daniel SALISBURY Patience COLE

m. Benjamin Kingsley Round
30 October 1856 in Swansea, Massachusetts

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

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

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

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

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

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

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

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

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

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

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

From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

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)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

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

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1855 - Swansea, Massachusetts

Name: Mary Bushee
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1855
Event Place: Swansey, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Age: 40
Birth Year (Estimated): 1815
Gender: Female
Race:
BirthPlace: Massachusetts, United States
Family Number: 270
Line Number:
GS Film Number: 000953977
Digital Folder Number: 004279391
Image Number: 00123

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John Bushee M 79 Massachusetts, United States
Patience Bushee F 81 Massachusetts, United States
Levi Bushee M 53 Massachusetts, United States
Sally Bushee F 49 Massachusetts, United States
Mary Bushee F 40 Massachusetts, United States
Thomas Lewis M 46 Massachusetts, United States

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1855 Massachusetts Census
Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World's Largest Free Genealogy Website

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

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

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

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

Death

Name: Mary Basher Rounds
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 17 Aug 1880
Event Place: Swansea, Massachusetts
Residence Place: Swansey, Mass
Address:
Gender: Female
Age: 65
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Housekeeper
Birth Date:
BirthPlace: Swansey
Birth Year (Estimated): 1815
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Father's Name: John Basher
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's BirthPlace: Somerset
Mother's Name: Patience Salisbury Basher
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Mother's BirthPlace: Swansey
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Reference ID: v 319 p 145
GS Film Number: 960218
Frame Number:
Digital Folder Number: 4221433
Image Number: 154

'Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915,' database with images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:NWKT-R2V : 10 March 2018), Patience Salisbury Basher in entry for Mary Basher Rounds, 17 Aug 1880; citing Swansea, Massachusetts, v 319 p 145, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm

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