Brief Life History of Shelburn
When Shelburn Bostwick Sr was born on 8 November 1781, in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Matthew Bostwick, was 44 and his mother, Rebecca Bostwick, was 40. He married Mercy Smith in 1809, in Tully, Tully, Onondaga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 7 September 1865, in Mentor Township, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mentor Municipal Cemetery, Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States.
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- Shelburn Bostwick in household of Alpheus S Bostwick, "United States Census, 1850"
- Shelburn Bostwick, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Shelburn, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): in northwestern England perhaps a variant of Bostock , and in southeastern England a variant of Bastick (see Bostick 1) with rounding of the vowel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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