When Benjamin Gardner Brockway was born on 20 December 1781, in Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, United States, his father, Justus Brockway Sr, was 35 and his mother, Alice Gardner, was 25. He married Sarah McNeal on 22 June 1843, in Washington, Ohio, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Historical Boundaries 1791: Rensselaer, New York, United States
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: topographic name from Middle English broke ‘brook, stream’ + weye ‘way, road’, for someone who lived ‘(by the) road near the brook’. The name may refer to a lost or as yet unidentified place.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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