Brief Life History of Hezekiah
When Hezekiah Knight Hotchkiss was born on 9 December 1793, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, his father, Jared Hotchkiss, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Knight, was 27. He married Lydia G. Mead on 5 January 1813, in Roane, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Ruddell Township, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died after 1852, in Independence, Arkansas, United States.
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- H K Hotchkiss, "United States Census, 1850"
- Hezikiah Hotchkiss, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Hezekiah K Hotchkiss, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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