When Magdalena Bower was born on 14 November 1793, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Benjamin Bower, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Good, was 26. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Daniel J. Shelly. She lived in Latimore Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Adams, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 16 October 1862, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Kralltown, Washington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Historical Boundaries 1800: Adams, Pennsylvania, United States
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .
English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.
Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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