Brief Life History of Catrina
When Catrina Preslaer was born about 1727, her father, Anthony Presler, was 24 and her mother, Neeltje Cornelia Quick, was 33. She married Jurien Mackey on 22 September 1749, in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died in 1803, in Ulster, New York, United States, at the age of 77.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Ari, Amnon, Aron, Nechama.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pressler 1.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who ironed clothes, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’ + the agent suffix -ler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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