Brief Life History of Elisha
When Elisha Taylor was born on 11 August 1784, in Shelburne, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Zeeb Taylor, was 33 and his mother, Lydia Taylor, was 24. He married Tirzah Holbrook on 21 October 1806, in Shelburne, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He died on 16 December 1869, in Plymouth, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Plymouth, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Elisha Taylor, "Wisconsin State Census, 1855"
- Elisha Taylor, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Elisha Taylor, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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