Documents in Year 1742                     

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.

• Great Awakening

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

• 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!

• Temperature Scales

Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701 – 1744) introduced the centigrade temperature scale, universally used in scientific work. The temperature of freezing water is zero degrees Celsius and boiling water is 100 degrees Celsius. (p. 16)
See 1724 for Fahrenheit temperature scale.
College Chemistry A systematic Approach Sisler, VanderWerf and Davidson. 1961. MacMillan Co, NY