When Elizabeth Ann Gillette Corporon was born on 10 October 1826, in New York, United States, her father, Lauren Gillet, was 39 and her mother, Anna P Roberts, was 38. She married Samuel S Corporon in 1842. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Walker Township, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1880. She died on 24 January 1899, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Walker Township, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: variant of Gillett , with spelling altered and stress shifted as if it were a modern French name (see 2 below).
French: variant of Gillet and, in North America, a variant of its altered form Gillett .
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