When Gurdon Leffingwell was born on 27 December 1796, in Norwich, Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Elisha Leffingwell, was 47 and his mother, Elisabeth "Betsey" Barney, was 41. He married Hulda E. Smith on 11 December 1817, in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Williamsfield, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 March 1870, in Harrison, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73.
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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.
ASHTABULA COUNTY - This county was formed 7 June 1807, and was taken from Trumbull and Geauga [Counties], and the date of its organization was 22 January 1811. It derived its name from Ashtabula River, which signifies in Indian dialect, "Fish River."
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English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
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