When Phillip Hardy was born on 2 February 1719, in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Hardy, was 39 and his mother, Rebeckah Bond, was 34. He married Hannah Tenney on 22 December 1743, in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 19 November 1806, in Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 87.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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