When Eliza Burgess was born on 11 October 1814, in Frederick, Virginia, United States, her father, West Burgess, was 24 and her mother, Hannah H. Senseney, was 20. She married William Whitman Totten on 11 June 1835, in Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Jefferson Township, Pike, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 26 November 1873, in Pike, Indiana, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Flat Creek Cemetery, Winslow, Patoka Township, Pike, Indiana, United States.
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Indiana is the 19th state.
Historical Boundaries 1817: Pike, Indiana, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, burgis, borgeis ‘inhabitant of a borough’ (strictly one possessing full municipal rights), ‘freeman of a borough’. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger .
Americanized form of French Bourgeois .
History: Thomas Burgess came from England to MA c. 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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