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for

Isham Gwin
b. 1764, d. 1830
and
his son
 John Gwin
b. 1792, d. 1877
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Year
World Event
Virginia
Tennessee
Indiana
Alabama
Alabama--2nd Generation
Alabama--3rd
Generation
1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 44





1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until after timeline





1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 56





1764:
Isham is born to Richard and Sarah (nee Chesley) Gwin, probably near Jamestown.




1765: Steam Engine at 
HMS Victory launched at ...		 age 1




1770: Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob at ... age 6




1772-1775: Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook from ... age 8 to 11




1772: Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England at... age 8




1773: Boston Tea Party at ... ...age 9




1774: 1st Continental Congress meets at ... age 10 .



1775-1782: British war in India from ... ...age 11 to 18




1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from ... ...age 11 to 19




1776: Declaration of Independence at ... ...age 12




1778:  .France joins war against Britain at ...
.Congress forbids import of slaves into America at...		 age 14




1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at ... age 16




1781:  Uranus discovered at ... age 17




1783: 1st working hot air balloon at ... age 19




1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at ... age 20




1786: .First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at ...
.The Dollar is adopted at ...		 age 22




1787:
Isham marries Mary Canterbury at age 23




1787:
Elizabeth Gwin is born to Isham and Mary at age 23




1787: .Delaware enters the union - 1st at ...
.Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at ...
.Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at ...
.New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at ...		 ...age 23




1788:  .Georgia enters the union - 4th at...
.Connecticut enters the union - 5th at...
.Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at...
.Maryland enters the union - 7th at...
.South Carolina enters the union - 8th at...
.New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at...
.Virginia enters the union - 10th at ...
.New York enters the union - 11th at...
.Constitution goes into effect at...		 ...age 24




1789: 
Polly Gwin is born to Isham and Mary at age 25




1789-1796: George Washington 1st President from ... ...age 25 to 32




1789: .US Army Established at ...
.North Carolina enters the union - 12th at...		 ...age 25




1790: 
William Gwin is born in VA...
 ...or western NC (now TN) to Isham and Mary at age 26 



1790:  .1st official US census at ...
.Coast Guard Established at ...
.Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at ...
...age 26



1791:  .Federal Bill of rights adopted at...
.Vermont enters the union -14th at ...
...age 27



1792:  .Kentucky enters the union - 15th at ...
.Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at ...
...age 28



Nov 1792: 

age 28; John Gwin is born to Isham and Mary in NC (in what becomes East TN four years later)



1792-1815: Napoleonic war from ...
...age 28 to 51



1793:  .Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at
.Marie Antoinette beheaded at 
age 29



1794:  .US Post Office Established at 
.US Navy Established at 
.Slavery abolished in French colonies at 
age 30



1795

Virginia Jane Gwin is born to Isham and Mary in TN



1796:  .France's presses get right of free speech at 
.Vaccination against Smallpox at 
age 32; Tennesee enters the union - 16th



1796-1800 John Adams is 2nd president of US from
age 32 to 36



1797

Isham Gwin II is born to Isham and Mary in TN



1798: .US Marine Corps Established at 
.Lithography at 
.Mississippi organized as a territory at
age 34



1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from 
age 34 to 36



1799: Rosetta Stone found at 
age 35



1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson is president of US from 
age 36 to 45



1800: .US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC 
.Russia annexes Georgia (the country, not the state)
1st Battery (Volta) at
age 36



1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at 
age 38



1803: .Fulton propels vessel by steampower at 
.Ohio enters the union - 17th 
.Louisiana Territory Purchased at 
age 39



1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from 
age 40 to 42



1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at...
...age 40



1805: .Morphine isolated at
.Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at 
age 41; Nancy Gwin is born to Isham and Mary in TN



1806

At age 41, Sarah Gwin is born to Isham and Mary in TN.



1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at 
.age 43; Isham's and all his neighbors' land grants are  surveyed in Crowson's Cove, Sevier Co., TN.
.At age 43, Manerva Gwin is born to Isham and Mary in TN.



1808: .Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at
.Import of new slaves into US is banned at 
age 44; Elizabeth Gwin marries David Denton 



1809-1816: James Madison is president of US from 
age 45 to 52



1809: Charles Darwin born at 
age 45











1810: .US pop. reaches 7.2 million at 
.Homeopathy founded at age 46
age 46



1812-1814: War of 1812 from
age 48 to 50



8 Apr 1812

At age 48, son John Gwin, 19, marries Jane Walker of Tuckaleechee Cove in Blount Co., TN.



1812: .LA enters union - 18th at
.MO organized as a territory at 
age 48



26 Jun 1813

age 49, son William Gwin and daughter-in-law Susanah join Miller's Cove Baptist Church, Blount Co., TN 



Dec 1814  
Wears Cove Church members include: Ijam Guin (Isham Gwin), Richard Shield(s), Henry Haggard at age 50; this is the last known record of Isham or his family in Tennessee, establishing the time of his move to Indiana as 1815 or later.



1815: .Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at 
.Battle of Waterloo at
.French outlaw slavery in France at 
age 51



7 Oct 1815

At age 51, son William Gwin and daughter-in-law Susanah leave Miller's Cove Baptist Church, Blount Co., TN (believed to move at this time to Dallas Co., AL).
At age 51, son William Gwin and daughter-in-law Susanah leave Miller's Cove Baptist Church, Blount Co., TN (believed to move at this time to Dallas Co., AL).

I speculate that John and Jane move to AL with William and Susanah at this time.

1816: .Photographic Negative at 
.Indiana enters union on 11 Dec 1816 - 19th at
.Stethoscope at 
age 52; Dec of 1816 is the first time Indiana has been accepted as a free state; John and Jane and William and Susanna have already moved to Alabama; Isham must be thinking seriously about the move to Indiana (to keep as many more of his family as possible from making the Alabama plunge?), perhaps as early as the summer of 1817.
at age 52, Mary Gwin, Isham's granddaughter (d/o John and Jane), is born in (prob. Shelby?) Co., AL;

17 Mar 1817

age 53
Isom Gwin, Isham's grandson (s/o John and Jane) is born in (prob. Shelby?) Co., AL territory

1817: .Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at
.MS enters union - 20th at
.AL organized as territory at
age 53



1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from 
age 53 to 59



1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from 
age 53 to 60



1817-1825: Erie Canal constructed from 
age 53 to 61



1818: .Savannah is first steamship to cross the Atlantic at 
.IL enters union - 21st at 
age 54



7 Aug 1819  

At age 55, Isham Gwin and Kinsey Veatch are presbyters of Providence Baptist Ch. formed this day with 21 members in Crawford Co., IN, at home of Robert Sands. This is the first time we see Isham in Indiana. If I know these guys, establishing a church is one of their first priorities upon arrival, so I'm betting they struck out from TN the spring or summer of 1818, wintered in Kentucky (where the two oldest unmarried daughters likely met the Huston boys), then made the last leg in spring of 1819. Sure enough, Will Huston goes to Harrison Co., IN, and marries Sarah, then takes her back to KY with him.


1819: .Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at 
.Alabama enters the union - 22nd at 
.Arkansas organized as a territory at 

age 55


1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at 

age 56


18 Dec 1820


age 56 William Gwin, Isham's grandson (s/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL

1820-1830  Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from

age 56 to 66


1821 .US pop. reaches 9.2 million at 
.1st US women's college at
.MO enters union - 24th at

age 57


1821-1829 Greek war of Independence from 

age 57 to 65


1822 Florida organized as a territory

age 58, and daughter Nancy m. S. Huston:
Name: Nancy Gwin
Spouse: Squire Huston
Date: 27 Oct 1822
County: Orange
State: Indiana
Source: Fam. Hist. Lib., Salt Lake City, UT
Microfilm: 1316696



1824 .Erie canal finished at
.Internal Combustion Engine at 

age 60


1824-1828 John Quincy Adams president of US from

age 60 to 64


1826 1st railroad tunnel (England) at 

age 62, and at age 62, Sarah Gwin, Isham's granddaughter (d/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL

1827 .1st Black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, at
.Ship's propeller (screw) at
.Ohms Law formulated at

age 63, and at age 63, Ann Gwin, Isham's granddaughter (d/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL

1828 .1st railroad in the US at
.1st Webster's Dictionary at 

age 64, and at age 64, Martha J. Gwin, Isham's granddaughter (d/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL;

Chesley R. Gwin, Isham's grandson (s/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL

1828-1836 Andrew Jackson president of US from

age 64 until after Isham's death


1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic from 

age 65 until after Isham's death


1829 1st US patent on a typewriter at

age 65


1830 Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at

age 66; Isham dies and is bd. somewhere in Orange Co., IN and at age 66, Louisa A. Gwin, Isham's granddaughter (d/o John and Jane) is born in Dallas Co., AL;

1830-1837 Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from 

age 66 until after Isham's death


1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000 slaves to freedom in US from

age 66 until after Isham's death
 
At this point, 1830,
the timeline is recustomized to  
correspond to
the family of 
Isham's son,
John Gwin,
b. Nov 1792, 
m. Jane Walker
on 8 Apr 1812;
therefore,
ages mentioned in
this column are 
  
 

now John's,
who is 38
when Isham dies.


 
 
 
1832 Horse-drawn trolleys in NY at...


...age 40

1833 .Telegraph at...
.Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at...


...age 41

1834 Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at...


...age 42

1835 Halley's Comet at...


...age 43

1836 .Battle of the Alamo at...
.AR enters union - 25th at...
.TX war for independence from Mexico at...


...age 44

1837



...age 45 Isom Gwin is m. to Mary Burdine Wilson (b. 9 Nov 1816; d. 12 Jan 1877) d/o Nathaniel Burdine Wilson, at...
1838-1846



...age 46-54 Mary Gwin is m1. to Drury Hampton Roark (b. 1812; d. 1846)
31 Oct 1838
to
17 Jul 1871



...age 46-78
Lifetime of Isom's and Mary's daughter, first grandchild Mary Jane Gwin, from...
1839-1863



...age 47-71
Lifetime of Mary's and Drury's son, second grandchild Walter Roark, from...
18 Mar 1841



...age 49 Sarah Gwin m. Louis Lavalette Basset
11 May 1842



...age 50 William Gwin m. RoseAnn Carlisle Jones Wilson, d/o Nathaniel Burdine Wilson, at...
19 Jan 1843



...age 51 Ann Gwin m. Joseph Lavalette Basset at...
5 Apr 1843
to
15 Sep 1923



...age 51 to after death of John
Lifetime of Isom's and Mary's daughter, third grandchild Martha Roseann "Mattie" Gwin, from...
23 Apr 1843
to
23 Jan 1882



...age 51 to after death of John
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's daughter, fourth grandchild Mary Ann Elizabeth Gwin, from...
3 Aug 1843



...age 51 to after death of John
Lifetime of Sarah's and Louis' daughter, fifth grandchild Emma Basset, from...
1845-1847



...age 53-55
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's daughter, sixth grandchild Martha Jane Gwin, from...
1846 - (unk. --d. young)



...age 54-(56?)
Lifetime of Sarah's and Louis' daughter, seventh grandchild Ann Adelia Basset, from...
22 Apr 1847



...age 55 Martha Gwin m. Jesse Comelander at...
5 Jun 1848
to
11 Sep 1916



...age 56 to after death of John
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's son, eighth grandchild William Sutton Gwin, from...
 17 May 1849



... age 57 Louisa A. Gwin m2. Mr. William G. McKnight at...

Mary Gwin m2. Mr. Abel Turner 
ca. 1849 



...age 57
Birth of Martha's and Jesse's son, ninth grandchild Jesse Comelander, (Jr?), at...
20 Mar 1850



...age 58 Chesley R. Gwin m. Mary Frances "Fannie" Elizabeth Bell at...
15 Mar 1851
to
29 Aug 1877



...age 59 -85
JLifetime of Will's and Roe's son, tenth grandchild John Wesley Gwin, M.D., from...
ca. 1852



...age 60
Birth of Chess' and Fannie's son, eleventh grandchild W.J. Gwin, at...
16 May 1853
to
20 Aug 1927



...age 60
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's son, twelfth grandchild Rufus King Gwin, from...
7 Dec 1853



...age 61 Isom Gwin, 36, dies at...
24 Dec 1853
to
4 Oct 1907



...age 61
Lifetime of Chess' and Fannie's son, thirteenth grandchild John I. (probably Isom) Gwin, at...
ca. 1854- 1880
(according to family lore)



...age 62
Lifetime of Martha's and Jesse's daughter, fourteenth grandchild Henrietta Comelander, from...
1 Dec 1855
to
22 Feb 1871



...age 63
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's daughter, fifteenth grandchild Lucy Marcella Gwin, from...
1 Mar 1856
to
22 Jun 1857



...age 63
Lifetime of Chess' and Fannie's daughter, sixteenth grandchild Mary Bell Gwin, at...
ca. 1857-
1880
(according to family lore)



...age 65 to after death of John
Lifetime of Martha's and Jesse's daughter, seventeenth grandchild Lucy A. Comelander, from...
ca. 1858



...age 65
Birth of Chess' and Fannie's son, eighteenth grandchild Enoch Gwin, at...
25 Sep 1858
to
21 Dec 1919



...age 65 to after death of John
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's son, nineteenth grandchild Isham Griffin Gwin, Sr., from...
ca. 1861



...age 69
Birth of Martha's and Jesse's son, twentieth grandchild William T. Comelander, at...

Birth of Chess' and Fannie's daughter, twenty-first grandchild Lula Gwin, at...
10 Feb 1863
to
 7 Oct 1877



...age 71-85
Lifetime of Will's and Roe's son, twenty-second grandchild Thomas Wilson Gwin, from...
ca. 1865



Jane Gwin, ca. 71, dies at age 73.

ca. 1866



 ...age 74
Birth of Chess' and Fannie's son, twenty-third grandchild C. J. Gwin, at...
ca. 1867



...age 75
Birth of Martha's and Jesse's son, twenty-fourth grandchild Walter A. Comelander, at...
Nov 7 1877



John Gwin dies at age 85.






...age 






...age