When Sarah Fanning was born on 15 October 1785, in Preston City, Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, Walter Fanning, was 38 and her mother, Grace Benjamin, was 31. She married Richard Hoy in 1808. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 25 February 1862, in Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Historical Boundaries 1795: Schoharie, New York, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Fenning .
Irish: from Ó Fionnáin ‘descendant of Fionnán’, a diminutive of Finn (see Fannin ). It is also a variant of the name of a Norman family in Munster, otherwise called Panin (a diminutive of Pagan ), Gaelicized as Fainín. The family was located at Fanningstown, formerly Ballyfanning, Limerick. Compare Fagan 2.
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