Betsey Howe

Brief Life History of Betsey

When Betsey Howe was born on 25 June 1791, in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Alvin Howe, was 37 and her mother, Molly Wellington, was 29. She married Sampson Howe on 15 February 1812. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Franklin Plantation, Oxford, Maine, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 September 1867, in Peru, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Peru, Oxford, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Sampson Howe
1786–1866
Betsey Howe
1791–1867
Marriage: 15 February 1812
Alvin Howe
1813–1890
Tamar Howe
1815–
Experience Achsa Howe
1818–1901

Sources (22)

  • Betsy Howe in household of Sampson Howe, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Betsey Howe, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850

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World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1805

Historical Boundaries: 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, , is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .

English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

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

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