Brief Life History of Freedom
When Freedom West was born on 18 May 1806, in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, George West, was 21 and his mother, Matilda McIntire, was 19. He married Polly Bacon on 27 May 1833. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years and Putnam, Windham, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died about 1908, at the age of 103.
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- Freedam West, "United States Census, 1860"
- Freedom West, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Freedom West, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
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.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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