When Jeremiah "Jerry" Remington was born on 6 December 1805, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, Joseph Remington, was 37 and his mother, Loranna Griffiths, was 27. He had at least 2 daughters with Polly Spaulding. He lived in Chester, Warren, New York, United States for about 15 years and Chestertown, Warren, New York, United States in 1875. He died on 9 December 1882, in Horicon, Warren, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Chestertown, Warren, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries 1813: Warren, New York, United States
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
English: habitational name from Rimington (Yorkshire), from Old English rima ‘rim, edge, boundary’ + the place- and river name forming suffix -ing (together meaning ‘boundary stream’, referring to Ings Brook) + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Rimington is on the Lancashire border.
History: The American painter Frederic Remington (1861–1909) was descended from John Remington, living in MA in 1639; his father, Eliphalet Remington, was born in Suffield, CT, in 1793, and was a noted firearms manufacturer.
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