Brief Life History of Levi
When Levi Burr was born about 1792, in Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Horace Burr, was 27 and his mother, Concurrance Hungerford, was 24. He died on 19 February 1839, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Farmington, Colerain Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States.
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- Levi Burr, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1808
Colerain Township was erected 14 June 1808, by the board of county commissioners, being taken from Richland and Pease Townships. It derives its name from a town in the north of Ireland.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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