Brief Life History of Charlotte
When Charlotte Woodward was born on 9 February 1807, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Caleb Woodward, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Alexander, was 28. She married Edward Mansfield about 1845, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Washington Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died in 1891, at the age of 84.
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- Charlot Mansfield in household of Edward Mansfield, "United States Census, 1870"
- Charlott Mansfield in household of Edward Mansfield, "United States Census, 1850"
- Charlotte Mansfield in household of Edward Mansfield, "United States Census, 1860"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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