Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Westwood was born about 1794, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. He married Margaret Dorwart on 22 March 1818, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 26 February 1841, in his hometown, at the age of 48, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Thomas Westwood, "United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914"
- Thomas Westwood, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
- Thomas Westwood in entry for Adelaide Westwood, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name habitational name for someone who lived ‘by the west wood’ (Middle English west + wode), or who came from any of numerous places called Westwood (from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’), such as those in Kent, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, or Worcestershire.
History: William Westwood was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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