Lewis Flint

Male1786–

Brief Life History of Lewis

Lewis Flint was born in 1786, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. He married Mary Jackson on 12 March 1805, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States.

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Lewis Flint
1786–
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Marriage: about 1819

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  • Lewis Flint, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"

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  • Marriage
    about 1819Harrison, West Virginia, United States

    • World Events (8)

    1786 · Shays' Rebellion

    Age 0

    Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

    1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

    Age 1

    The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

    1819 · Panic! of 1819

    Age 33

    With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

    Name Meaning

    English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English, Low German flint), or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual, metaphorically as hard as flint.

    Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.

    Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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