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1841 - 1850
1841  
         April
                     20  - Mary Abagail - Born to Mary Jane Plummer Pillsbury & Benjamin L. Pillsbury in Hampshead, NH

1842 
       April 
                    20 - Samuel N. .(8)Pillsbury born to Lyman(7)Pillsbury & Clarissa Eaton Pillsbury.

 September 
                    7 -  Dr. Harlin(7)Pillsbury & Sophia Pratt are married.

1843 
         April 
                   5 - Orrin Nathan Foster, son born to Harriet Berry Foster & Nathan Foster, in Andover, MA; will eventually marry Emma W. Ingalls. (see Foster
                   Genealogy)

        June 
                    8 -George H(8)Pillsbury, son of Harlin(7)Pillsbury & Sarah Pratt Pillsbury, born in Lowell, MA.

  1844 
       Mary P. Sargent dies at North Andover. H.H.'s mother. (she was 41 at death, H.H. was 11)

1845 
         July
                    28  - Mary Currier Pillsbury, HH's grandmother died in Sandown, NH. 
         September
                   19  - Martha E. (8)Pillsbury born to Harrison(7)Pillsbury & Martha C. Peaslee. Born in Canaan, NH.

1846 
        August
                    4  - Edward H(8)Pillsbury, son of Harlin(7)Pillsbury & Sarah Pratt Pillsbury, born in Lowell, MA.

1848 
        November
                     12  - Samual L.(8)Pillsbury, son of Harlin(7)Pillsbury & Sarah Pratt Pillsbury, born in Lowell, MA.

       James Marshall discovers gold, this discovery leading to the first sighting of Yosemite Valley through skirmished between gold miners and the local Miwok.  

1849 
        May
                    1  - Ruth Patten Sargent dies in Amesbury.
                   2  - Harlin Henry Pillsbury united with First Cong. Church in Hampstead.

       John Muir's family moves to Portage, Wisconsin to live on Fountain Lake Farm. 


      William Penn Abrams and U. N.  Reamer catch the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley while lost on a hunting expedition from their camp on the south fork of the 
      Merced River.