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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.