When Ruth Besse was born on 18 September 1805, in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Jabez Besse, was 39 and her mother, Patience Perry, was 38. She married Jonathan Chesney Pinkham on 28 May 1828, in Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 21 April 1843, at the age of 37.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
French: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Occitan bès ‘birch tree’, or a habitational name from (La) Besse, the name of several places mainly in southern France, named from the same word (ultimately from Gaulish betu).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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