Eleazer CROWELL

(b. 19 March 1786 , Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 14 December 1872 , Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Eleazer CROWELL was born 19 March 1786 in Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Eleazer CROWELL was the child of Eleazer CROWELL and Mercy KENNEY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Judah CROWELL and Tabitha NICKERSON (maternal) Heman KENNEY and Mercy NICKERSON

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Eleazer married Sarah Janette SWIM 3 December 1807 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sarah Janette SWIM was born 9 October 1789 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah Janette died 29 May 1899 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah Janette was the child of Michael SWIM and Letitia DOANE.

Eleazer CROWELL died 14 December 1872 in Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Eleazer CROWELL married

Sarah Janette SWIM-- Date: 3 December 1807 Place: Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sarah Janette SWIM was the child of Michael SWIM and Letitia DOANE

Children of Eleazer CROWELL and Sarah Janette SWIM:

Michael CROWELL (b.25 September 1814, Clark's Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada d. abt. 1892, Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Hester L NICKERSON 1839

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1786 Birth
19 March 1786
Cape Sable Island, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1807 Marriage / Partner
Eleazer CROWELL and Sarah Janette SWIM 3 December 1807, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

He was 21 years old.

1814 Birth of Child
Michael CROWELL was born 25 September 1814, Clark's Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Eleazer was 28 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.