Documents in Year 1741                     

Links of Interest:

• King George II, British Monarch over American Colonies

• Thomas Jefferson

Peter Jefferson had arrived in 1735, father of Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President) born in 1743,  near Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County on Rivanna River just down the road from William I Vardeman.

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• Education:

  Great Awakening: A Secondary School Guide

Recommended by a history teacher who emailed to say how useful she found the treespot website and this link! see 1746 for next event...

• Exploration: Russia explores Alaska

Explorer is Vitus Bering (Northwest)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

• Natural Resources: Russian Explorers arrived in (future Alaska) briefly for water where George Steller, a European Naturalist on the crew, discovered the Steller Jay. Then the crew headed back to Siberia with otter pelts from the Bering sea area.
  BBC Atlas of the Natural World North America "The First and Last Frontier."

• Spiritual:

  Great Awakening

in the Colonies by English, Fire and Brimstone Evangelist, George Whitefield, from 1739-1744