When Mary Adams Putnam was born about 1814, in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Henry Putnam, was 23 and her mother, Mary Adams, was 19. She married Charles Francis Willard on 9 October 1834. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Painesville, Lake, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 27 January 1889, at the age of 76, and was buried in Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Delaware, Indiana, United States
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Middlesex and Buckinghamshire): habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
History: John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
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From the History of the Putnam Family in England and America: "Henry Putnam, (Elisha, Thomas, Seth, Thomas, Thomas, John), b. Charlestown, NH, 28 Feb. 1792; m. Mary Adams of Quincy, Ma., who d. Quincy …
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