Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Shaw was born on 23 September 1781, in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Daniel Shaw, was 27 and her mother, Mary Barrows, was 26. She married Forrest Morgan on 27 December 1796, in Rochester, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 20 September 1861, in Potsdam, Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Norwood, Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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- 1850 United States Federal Census
- Olive Shaw Morgan, "Find A Grave Index"
- Olive Shaw, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (7)
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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