Brief Life History of Dorcas
When Dorcas Beckley was born on 26 October 1803, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Josiah Beckley, was 35 and her mother, Mary Norton, was 35. She married John Dutton Abbott on 24 April 1823, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Vermont, United States in 1870. She died on 16 April 1879, in Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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- Dorcas Abbott in household of John D Abbott, "United States Census, 1850"
- Dorcas Abbott, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorcus Abbott in entry for Lorinzo D Smith and Betsey Perry, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1818
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so named in Oxfordshire and Sussex, from the Old English byname Becca (see Beck 3) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: variant of Bickley .
Americanized form of South German Bächle (see Baechle ) and of its Swiss German cognate Bächli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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