When Prudence Haynes was born on 17 September 1780, in Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Vine Haynes, was 37 and her mother, Polly Brown, was 36. She married Bell or Debell about 1800, in Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: variant of Hayne , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s; see Hain . Compare Hains .
English: habitational name from Haynes (Bedfordshire), which may derive from Old English hagenas, plural form of hagen ‘enclosure’.
English: in English counties bordering Wales, perhaps from the Welsh personal name Einws (a pet form of Welsh Einion) with a prosthetic H-; see also Enos . While this is linguistically possible there is no evidence yet to show that it was the origin of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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