When Anna Bentley was born in 1770, her father, Joseph Bentley, was 29 and her mother, Jannetje Krieger, was 36. She married Winthrop Bacon in 1787, in Washington, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 15 December 1820, at the age of 50, and was buried in Fort Ann, Washington, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1772: Charlotte, New York Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Charlotte, New York, United States
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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