When Jacob Hendrick Dockstader was born on 24 June 1818, in Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Hendrick Frederick Dockstader, was 40 and his mother, Margaret Ecker, was 35. He married Catharine Snell on 13 February 1840, in Montgomery, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sharon, Schoharie, New York, United States for about 5 years and Mohawk, Montgomery, New York, United States in 1900. He died on 4 December 1899, in Sharon Springs, Sharon, Schoharie, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Ames, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Established in 1823.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a landing, from Middle Low German docke ‘dock’ + stade ‘embankment, shore’, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. In some cases it may have been an occupational name for a docker, since stade also denoted a granary or warehouse. This surname has apparently died out in Germany. Compare Doxtater and Doxtator .
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