Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Harrington was born on 6 November 1774, in Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York, United States, her father, James Herrington, was 23 and her mother, Christiana Coons, was 17. She married David Hanson on 6 April 1795. She died on 1 March 1860, in Milton, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Ballston Center, Saratoga, New York, United States.
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- Maria Harrington, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791
Historical Boundaries 1791: Rensselaer, New York, United States
1797
Became State Capitol in 1797
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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