When Rhoda Huntington Swan was born on 17 April 1810, in Millington, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, Hurlburt Swan, was 37 and her mother, Hannah Estabrook, was 36. She married Captain Joseph Clark on 3 February 1830, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Chester, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States in 1860. She died on 20 July 1870, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in First Church Cemetery, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
English: occupational name from Middle English swon(e), northern Middle English swan(e) ‘swineherd; peasant; male servant’ (Old English swān). Compare Swain 2, with which this name was thoroughly confused.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname from Middle English swan, swon ‘swan’. In the Middle Ages, the swan was taken as a symbol of false pride, and, according to Chaucer, jealousy. Compare Kite , Nightingale , and Pye .
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Swan, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Sveinn. Compare Swain 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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