When Betsey H Woodburn was born in 1798, in Rhode Island, United States, her father, John Lawrence Woodburn, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Whitman, was 24. She married Ebenezer Whitney on 25 November 1818, in Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 July 1853, in Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
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.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Woodburn in Corsenside (Northumberland), Woodburn (Ayrshire, Kincardineshire, Midlothian), or Woodburn in Oakford (Devon). The placenames all derive from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + burna ‘spring, stream’, i.e. a stream flowing through a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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