Timeline: FERNALD, John: Among Our Ancestors

1640 - 1642 (2 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1620	1620—1640: The Great Migration to America The Great Migration to America
2	1634	1634—1662: Before the King’s Daughters: Filles a Marier The Filles à Marier refer to the marriageable girls who immigrated to New France between 1634 and September 1663 seeking a better life. Unlike the Filles du roi, their passage wasn't paid for by the French crown, nor did they receive the “king’s gift” when they married. Although less well known than the Filles du Roi, most people with French-Canadian ancestry have at least one of these brave women as their ancestors. Filles a Marier
3	1640	22 Oct 1640: Signing of the Dover Combination This agreement, known as the "Combination of the People of Dover to Establish a Form of Government," was a significant early step towards self-governance in the American colonies.
4	1642	1642—1653: Iroquois Wars The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises) were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies. As a result of this conflict, the Iroquois destroyed several confederacies and tribes through warfare: the Hurons or Wendat, Erie, Neutral, Wenro, Petun, Susquehannock, Mohican and northern Algonquins whom they defeated and dispersed, some fleeing to neighbouring peoples and others assimilated, routed, or killed.