Anna York

Female7 April 1741–1790

Brief Life History of Anna

When Anna York was born on 7 April 1741, in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Stanton York, was 33 and her mother, Jemima Shaw, was 30. She married John Gavitt on 19 April 1758, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. She died in 1790, at the age of 49.

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John Gavitt
1736–1779
Anna York
1741–1790
Marriage: 19 April 1758

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  • Anna York, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"

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  • Marriage
    19 April 1758Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
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    Siblings (6)

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    World Events (5)

    1763 · First Synagogue in America

    Age 22

    The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.

    1772 · The Gaspee Affair

    Age 31

    On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.

    1776

    Age 35

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

    In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .

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

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