When Daniel Ostrander was born on 21 January 1751, in Plattekill, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Hendrick Pieterse Ostrander, was 57 and his mother, Elisabeth Van Bommel, was 49. He married Sarah Brown on 15 August 1792, in Newburgh, Orange, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 19 March 1812, at the age of 61.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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.
Altered form of Dutch Van Ostrande, which is most likely a variant of Van Nostrand formed by misdivision of the preposition van ‘from, of’ and the placename. The surname (Van) Ostrande is not found in the Netherlands.
Swedish: probably of the same etymology as Ostrand , the addition of the suffix -er giving the appearance of a name formed with the suffix -ander, derived from Greek anēr (genitive andros) ‘man’. This surname is very rare in Sweden.
In some cases reportedly also a shortened and altered form of Swedish Sjöstrand (see Sjostrand ).
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