Quarterman Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   January 19

   639:  Dagobert  I  d.,  King  of  Austrasia,  Soissons,  Burgundy, and
   Neustria.

   1736:  Darien,  John  McIntosh  Mohr founds New Inverness ([2]Darien),
   Georgia.  [3]On  the  19th of January, after traveling down the inland
   waterway  by  boat,  the Highlanders landed at Barnwell's Bluff on the
   site  of  Fort King George. There the Scots established the settlement
   they  called  Darien,  in  memory  of the ill-fated expedition made by
   their  countrymen  to  the  Isthmus of Darien in Panama in 1697. There
   were  177  people  in  this  hardy  band of Scots, including women and
   children, and they were led by John McIntosh Mohr and Hugh Mackay.

   1736: Presbyterians in Georgia,
   [4]Rev.  John  McLeod of the Isle of Skye is the first Presb. minister
   in Ga., at Darien.

   1942: Japan invades Burma,

References

   1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
   2. http://www.quarterman.org/sinclair/darien.html
   3. http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html
   4. http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html
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