When Mary Dayton was born about 1817, in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Chauncey Dayton, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Atwood, was 25. She married Aaron Fenn on 8 May 1850, in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870 and Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 - 1,758 1870 - 4,140 1880 2,350 1910 - 5,021
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
English: variant of Deighton .
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