Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Graves was born on 1 April 1793, in Washington, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, her father, William Graves, was 36 and her mother, Lucy Wheeler, was 28. She married Ebenezer Spaulding about 1813, in Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 April 1881, in Sutton, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Ester Spaulding, "United States Census, 1880"
- Esther Graves, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Esther Graves, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
Name Meaning
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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