When Simeon Root was born on 30 December 1781, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Daniel Root, was 30 and his mother, Anna Pease, was 27. He married Sophronia Walker on 6 May 1809, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 21 April 1878, in Claridon Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Claridon, Geauga, 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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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