Samuel H. Foss

Brief Life History of Samuel H.

When Samuel H. Foss was born in 1790, in Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Samuel T Foss, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Abigail Horne, was 25. He married Charlotte Nute about 1822, in Strafford, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 14 October 1874, in Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Samuel Foss Cemetery, Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States.

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Samuel H. Foss
1790–1874
Charlotte Nute
1798–1874
Marriage: about 1822
Charles Henry Foss
1823–1911
Eliza A Foss
1825–1864
Solomon W. Foss
1839–1863
William S Foss
1826–1922
Mary Caroline Foss
1832–1895

Sources (13)

  • Samuel Foss, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Samuel H Foss, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
  • Samuel H. in entry for Eben T. James and Mary C. Buckman, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"

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World Events (8)

1791

Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.

1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital

In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

English: either topographic name from Middle English foss ‘ditch’ (from Old English foss ‘ditch’, Latin fossa) or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Voss in Plympton Saint Mary and Great Fossend in Burlescombe (both Devon), the River Foss (North Yorkshire), Foss Beck (East Yorkshire), and the Fosse Way, a Roman road running between Lincoln (Lincolnshire) and Axminster (Devon) via Leicester (Leicestershire), Cirencester (Gloucestershire), and Bath (Somerset), named in the Old English period from the ditch that ran alongside it.

Danish: from fos, vos ‘fox’, applied as a nickname for a sly or cunning person, or as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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