Andrew E. Best was born on 26 December 1807, in New Jersey, United States. He married Susan Ann Fulkerson about 1847, in Tompkins, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Enfield, Tompkins, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 6 August 1887, in Covert, Seneca, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ulysses, Tompkins, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
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