Mirabilis Member Years

1720

The Tuscarora people leave North Carolina due to English settlement

1721

South Carolina incorporated as a colony of Great Britain.

Church-wide religious revivals begin in Connecticut.

1722

Benjamin Franklin publishes the “Silence Dogood” Letters in Philadelphia.

The Brown Bess musket entered service in the British Army and remained the primary military musket for more than a hundred twenty years in England and America.

1723

Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17, having run away from his Boston family to seek new beginnings.

1724

Well over half of the people in Southern Anglican parishes attended church regularly, many of the churches were filled to capacity.

1725

Black slave population in the American colonies reaches 75,000

1726

Piracy on the high seas all but eliminated by this year through actions of the Royal Navy.

1727

The First Amish arrived in America

Coronation of English King George II. He will lead the nation to war which will cost the Americans years of fighting the Canadian French and their Indian allies for the third time in thirty years.

1728

Death of the Rev. Cotton Mather, author of hundreds of pamphlets, sermons, books, and other works on many subjects of scientific, astronomical, family, and theological interest. Probably the most influential minister in American history in his day.

1729

North Carolina became a Royal Colony.

City of Baltimore founded