When Hugh Montgomery IV was born on 12 August 1785, in Londonderry, Windham, Republic of Vermont, his father, Hugh Montgomery III, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Mack, was 28. He married Irena Southworth on 5 January 1808, in Canton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States in 1800. He died on 14 July 1859, in Canton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Brick Chapel Cemetery, Canton, St. Lawrence, 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.
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Sainte-Foy-de-Montgomery and Saint-Germain-de-Montgomery (Calvados). In Ireland this surname was present in the medieval period, died out, and was then reintroduced from Scotland in the 17th century. It has been Gaelicized in Ireland as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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