Olive Bullard

Brief Life History of Olive

When Olive Bullard was born on 10 July 1761, in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Isaac Bullard, was 34 and her mother, Beulah Leland, was 34. She married Ezra Whitney on 1 June 1801, in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 19 May 1846, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Ezra Whitney
1763–1847
Olive Bullard
1761–1846
Marriage: 1 June 1801

Sources (6)

  • Olive Bullard, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Olive B. Whitney, "Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
  • Olive Bullard, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

Name Meaning

English:

occupational name for someone who kept bulls, from Middle English buleward, boleward ‘bull keeper’ or the rarer Middle English buleherd ‘bull herd’. The more common name for this occupation is Bulman .

alternatively, a variant of Buller + excrescent -d.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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