Brief Life History of Rachel Sullivan
When Rachel Sullivan Simpson was born on 22 April 1793, in Sullivan, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, John Simpson, was 29 and her mother, Rachel Sullivan Simpson, was 26. She married Hiram Emery on 10 February 1815, in Sullivan, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 2 September 1844, in her hometown, at the age of 51, and was buried in Sullivan, Hancock, Maine, United States.
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- Rachel Sullivan Simpson Emery, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rachel S Simpson Emery, "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980"
- Rachel Simpson Emery, "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1804 · Whitehead Light
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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