Samuel YOUNG

Born

2 September 1797 , Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

13 June 1874 , Freeport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Samuel YOUNG Lydia MORSE

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Born: 2 September 1797 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Samuel YOUNG

Mother: Lydia MORSE

Paternal grandparents: Job YOUNG , Hannah BARNES

Maternal grandparents: Samuel MORSE , Lydia CHURCH

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Samuel married Sophia (Saphiah) HAINES abt. 1830 in Freeport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sophia (Saphiah) HAINES was born abt. 1798 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Sophia (Saphiah) was the child of Bartholomew HAINES and Gloranah KNIFFIN.

Samuel YOUNG died 13 June 1874 in Freeport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sophia (Saphiah) HAINES
Marriage date: abt. 1830
Marriage place: Freeport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sophia (Saphiah) HAINES was the child of Bartholomew HAINES and Gloranah KNIFFIN

Children of Samuel YOUNG and Sophia (Saphiah) HAINES

Joseph Allen YOUNG

Born: abt. 1832, Sandy Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 23 December 1867, Digby Neck, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: Mary Eliza SAUNDERS 1855

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Birth — 1797
2 September 1797
Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

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)

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.