When Mary Polly Canfield was born on 10 February 1784, in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Andrew C. Canfield, was 24 and her mother, Eunice Fairchild, was 27. She married Jesse Edsell on 28 September 1803, in Pike Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Otsego, Allegan, Michigan, United States in 1850. She died on 13 July 1877, in Pike Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Le Raysville, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Historical Boundaries 1810: Ontario, Pennsylvania, United States 1812: Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States
English:
habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana (see Cane 2) + feld ‘open country’.
in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime (France).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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