1600    Charles I

1620    Pilgrims land

1640  Haverhill founders land

1649    Charles II (Actually Cromwell 1649 - 1653)

1657  Hannah Duston (nee Emmerson) born

1665  Elizabeth Emmerson born

1666  Michael Emmerson moves to Mill St

1667     (?)Michael & family are kindly urged to go back to the woods (2 miles from Mill St)

1676     (May) Michael in court for beating Elizabeth

1685    James II

1686    Dorothy Emerson born to Elizabeth

1689    Wiiliam III (of Orange) and Mary II

1691    May 7 Twins born to (and murdered by?) Elizabeth

1691    Elizabeth arrested, sent to Boston, tried, found guilty of murder

1692 - 1693 Witch trials

1693     June 8 Elizabeth. hanged ( Cotton Mather's Sermon on the Occasion)

1697  Hannah kidnapped and escaped

1701  War of Spanish Succession

1702  Queen Anne

1708  Red Sunday

1714  George I

1727  George II

1736  Hannah died

1760  George III

1775     Independence

1785     September 7, Arrival of John Quincy Adams