When John Davis Burdick was born on 25 April 1815, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Rowland Burdick, was 45 and his mother, Martha Chester, was 36. He married Sarah Wealthy Clarke on 9 October 1836, in Seventh Day Baptist Church, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, United States in 1860. He died on 11 July 1870, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English (Middlesex): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English burre-dokke ‘burdock’, the name of a prickly plant with burrs and dock-like leaves (usually Arctium lappa), common on waste ground. It may have been given to someone of a prickly temperament or perhaps to someone with a hoarse voice.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Boerdijk: habitational name from a settlement named Boerdijk, composed of boer ‘peasant, farmer, countryman’ and dijk ‘dike’.
History: Robert Burdick was a freeman of Newport, RI, in 1655.
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