When Sarah Stowell was born on 4 December 1809, in New York, United States, her father, Solomon Stowell, was 34 and her mother, Lydia Pulsipher, was 26. She married Harley Knapp on 7 June 1829, in Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fine, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1850 and Russell, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1860. She died on 29 December 1895, in Independence, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Madison Cemetery, Madison Township, Buchanan, Iowa, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Iowa is the 29th state.
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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Harley Knapp, 51 Sarah Knapp, 40 Sophia Knapp, 18 Moses Knapp, 17 Solomon Knapp, 13 Sarah Knapp, 11 Betsy Knapp, 7 United States Census, 1850 Inhabitants in Fine, in the County of St. Lawrence, State …
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