Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Shaw was born on 9 December 1795, in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Shaw Jr, was 26 and her mother, Anna Haskins, was 22. She married Chester Gray on 8 May 1817, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 5 April 1872, in Prescott, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Lydia Gray in household of Chester W Gray, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lydia Shaw, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Lydia Gray, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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