Brief Life History of Phillip Crain
When Phillip Crain Field was born on 15 June 1778, in Woodstock, Windsor, Republic of Vermont, his father, Elijah Field, was 22 and his mother, Tamesin Crane, was 23. He married Esther Grow on 9 February 1811, in Bridgewater, Windsor, Vermont, United States. He lived in Watertown, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States in 1810 and Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States for about 35 years. He died on 16 March 1860, in Hounsfield, Jefferson, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Fields Settlement, Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States.
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- Philip Fields, "United States Census, 1840"
- Phillip Crain Field, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Phillip Field, "Find A Grave Index"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1798
Historical Boundaries 1798: Oneida, New York, United States
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).
Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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