When Samuel Hovey was born on 20 October 1774, in Peagscomsueck, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Rev. Samuel Hovey, was 32 and his mother, Abigail Cleveland, was 28. He married Anna Billings on 15 November 1798, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 July 1856, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in East Hill Cemetery, Williamstown, Orange, Vermont, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English and Welsh: from the personal name Hwfa, of uncertain origin. The surname is more frequently found in the explicit patronymic form ap Hwfa ‘son of Hwfa’ (see Povey ) and forms with and without ap were still interchangeable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Old English personal name Hofig, a pet form of Old English Hofa (of uncertain origin but apparently from hof ‘temple’) + a hypocoristic suffix -ig. However, the absence of Middle English evidence for either the personal name or the surname leaves this explanation in doubt.
Americanized form of Dutch Hove .
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