When Theoda Nash was born on 18 January 1805, in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Capt Timothy Nash, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth 'Betsey' Cushing, was 23. She married Wilder Alden on 15 March 1828, in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years. She died in 1856, at the age of 51, and was buried in Village Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in County Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement. — Abner Nash (c. 1740–86), governor of NC, was of Welsh origin, his parents having emigrated to VA from Wales in 1730. His brother Francis (c. 1742–77) was a general in the Continental army; the city of Nashville, TN, was named in his honor.
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