When Arad Stowell was born on 24 October 1783, in Vermont, United States, his father, Asa Stowell, was 23 and his mother, Hannah Bixby, was 20. He married Mercy Warner on 1 January 1807, in Bainbridge, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Jericho, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, United States in 1810 and Bainbridge, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States for about 15 years. He died on 8 August 1869, in Afton, Chenango, New York, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Nineveh, Colesville, Broome, New York, United States.
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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.
Founded circa 1789
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: habitational name from Stowell (Somerset), Stowell (Gloucestershire), East and West Stowell in Wilcot (Wiltshire), or Stawell (Somerset), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’. The surname was taken to the Isle of Man by 1511, from whence it migrated to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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