When Rebecca Girton was born in 1805, in Derry, Madison Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Esau Girton, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Heller, was 28. She married Abraham Shoemaker Jr about 1824, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Hemlock Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died in 1866, at the age of 61.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries 1813: Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Girton or Gretton. Gretton in Northamptonshire, as well as Girton in Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, are named from Old English grēot ‘gravel’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Gretton in Shropshire is named from Old English grēoten ‘gravelly’ + tūn, while Gretton, Gloucestershire, is ‘farmstead (tūn) near Greet (Old English grēote ‘gravelly place’)’.
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