Date/Age | Event | Description |
1793 | Birth | 15 Sep 1793 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1803 Age 9 | The Louisiana Purchase | President Thomas Jefferson bought approximately 828,000 square miles of land from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the United States. This monumental land deal stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border, securing control of the vital port of New Orleans and opening the western interior for future settlement and ancestral migration. |
1803 Age 9 | Death of Father Thomas Hubbard II | 06 Jun 1803 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1804 Age 10 | Lewis & Clark Expedition | Between 1804-1806. Commissioned by Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery overland to the Pacific Ocean and back. Their team mapped uncharted territory, established trade and diplomatic relations with dozens of Native American tribes, and documented hundreds of new plant and animal species, providing the vital geographic intelligence that shaped America's westward expansion. |
1812 Age 18 | War of 1812 | Between 1812-1815. Fought between the United States and Great Britain, this conflict erupted over British violations of maritime rights, impressment of American sailors, and British support for Native American resistance against western expansion. Key moments included the burning of Washington, D.C., and the decisive American victory at the Battle of New Orleans. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war borders but instilling a new sense of American national pride and sovereignty. |
1815 Age 21 | Marriage to Heman Brainerd Jr | 15 Jan 1815 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1815 Age 22 | Birth of Son Wellington White Brainerd | 10 Oct 1815 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1822 Age 28 | Birth of Son Waldemar Wiltshire Brainerd | 06 Jul 1822 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1824 Age 30 | Death of Spouse Heman Brainerd Jr | 27 Jan 1824 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1829 Age 35 | Death of Mother Sarah Boardman | 14 Jun 1829 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1831 Age 37 | Marriage to Matthew G Hubbard | 30 Apr 1831 New York City, New York, New York, USA |
1841 Age 47 | Migration along the Oregon Trail | Between 1841-1869. Hundreds of thousands of farmers, fur trappers, and homesteaders journeyed westward from Missouri across 2,000 miles of treacherous terrain to the fertile valleys of the Pacific Northwest. Families traveled in covered wagon trains facing disease, harsh weather, and rugged landscapes, fundamentally altering the western frontier. |
1842 Age 48 | Death of Son Wellington White Brainerd | 13 Feb 1842 |
1846 Age 52 | Mexican-American War | Between 1846-1848. Triggered by the annexation of Texas and a border dispute, this conflict resulted in an American victory and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico ceded vast territories —including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming—realizing the concept of Manifest Destiny. |
1848 Age 54 | California Gold Rush | Between 1848-1855. Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, sparked a massive migration of over 300,000 prospectors, known as "forty-niners," from across the United States and the globe. This sudden influx accelerated California's path to statehood in 1850 while devastating indigenous populations and reshaping the western economy. |
1851 Age 58 | Death of Sister Jemima Hubbard Smith | 11 Dec 1851 Connecticut, USA |
1861 Age 67 | The Civil War | Between 12 Apr 1861-09 Apr 1865. A cataclysmic conflict fought between the Union (the Northern states) and the Confederacy (eleven southern states that seceded) over the institution of slavery and states' rights. Claiming over 600,000 American lives, the war ended with the preservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery. |
1862 Age 69 | Emancipation Proclamation | 22 Sep 1862. Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the height of the Civil War, this executive order declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were legally free. It fundamentally transformed the moral purpose of the war and allowed formerly enslaved individuals to enlist in the Union armed forces. |
1864 Age 70 | Death of Brother Amasa Hubbard | 07 Feb 1864 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1865 Age 71 | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | President Lincoln was shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., passing away the following morning. Occurring just days after the end of the Civil War, his death plunged a recovering nation into grief and left the turbulent era of Reconstruction to his successor, Andrew Johnson. |
1865 Age 72 | Death of Sister Sarah Hubbard Kelsey | 27 Sep 1865 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA |
1868 Age 74 | Death of Sister Elizabeth Hubbard Ranney | 04 Jan 1868 |
1877 Age 83 | Death | 01 Mar 1877 |
