Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Hunt was born on 1 October 1798, in Mount Pleasant MM, Grayson, Virginia, United States, her father, Jacob Hunt, was 25 and her mother, Lydia Green, was 24. She married Absalom Gibson on 7 May 1829, in Clinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Clark Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Washington Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 31 December 1878, at the age of 80.
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- Rachel Gibson in household of Abslom Gibson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Rachel Hunt, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Rachel Hurst in entry for Louisa J Holaday, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
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 (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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