Patience Harrington

Brief Life History of Patience

When Patience Harrington was born on 18 March 1786, in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, Stephen Harrington, was 45 and her mother, Patience Eldridge, was 41. She married Chester Wright on 14 March 1813. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 22 January 1872, in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Chester Wright
1786–1861
Patience Harrington
1786–1872
Marriage: 14 March 1813
Chauncey Wright
1815–1880
Dr. Flavius J. Wright
1819–1852
Elizabeth Le Breton Wright
1822–1894

Sources (7)

  • Patience Brasenall in household of Erastus Brasenall, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Patience Harrington Wright, "Find A Grave Index"
  • THE ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS of JOHN HEARNDON of SCITUATE, R. I.

World Events (8)

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1791

Historical Boundaries 1791: Otsego, New York, United States

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .

Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.

Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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