When Mary Spafford was born on 22 August 1793, in Sharon, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Amos Spofford, was 27 and her mother, Mary Taggart, was 29. She married William Emery on 2 June 1818, in Wakefield, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 2 February 1862, in New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 68.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire):
habitational name usually from Spalford (Nottinghamshire). The placename may derive from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, or from spald ‘ditch, trench’ + ford ‘ford’.
variant of Spofforth, a habitational name from Spofforth (Yorkshire), probably from Old English spot ‘small piece, plot of land’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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