Benjamin SWEET

(b. abt. 1797 , Wentworth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 23 September 1874 , St. Croix, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Benjamin SWEET was born abt. 1797 in Wentworth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

Benjamin SWEET was the child of Benoni SWEET and Margaret Peggy COCHRAN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Benoni SWEET and Lydia DIMOCK (maternal) George COCHRAN and Elizabeth SMITH

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Benjamin married Jane Rachel HUNTER 4 December 1828 in Ardoise, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jane Rachel HUNTER was born abt. 1805 in Ardoise, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jane Rachel died abt. 1888 in Sweets Corner, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jane Rachel was the child of Lodowick David HUNTER and Jane Sophia GILLMORE.

Benjamin SWEET died 23 September 1874 in St. Croix, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Benjamin SWEET married

Jane Rachel HUNTER-- Date: 4 December 1828 Place: Ardoise, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jane Rachel HUNTER was the child of Lodowick David HUNTER and Jane Sophia GILLMORE

Children of Benjamin SWEET and Jane Rachel HUNTER:

George Benjamin SWEET (b.22 February 1837, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 20 December 1906, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Margaret Jane GREENO 15 December 1859

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

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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Benjamin SWEET and Jane Rachel HUNTER 4 December 1828, Ardoise, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

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 Birth of Child
George Benjamin SWEET was born 22 February 1837, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia)

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.