Brief Life History of Nathan
When Nathan Burr was born on 2 August 1783, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Benjamin Burr, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Platts, was 34. He married Chloe Ann Clark on 17 March 1811, in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Brantingham, Greig, Lewis, New York, United States in 1830 and Leyden, Lewis, New York, United States in 1840. He died on 10 March 1850, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Sacramento, California, United States.
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- Nathan Borr, "United States Census, 1830"
- Nathan Burr, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Nathan Burr, "Find A Grave Index"
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1785
DLESEX COUNTY was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed at the May session, 1785, and at that time consisted of six towns. Of these, Mifldletown, Chatham, Haddam, and East Haddam were taken from the county of Hartford, and Saybrook and Killingworth from New London coun
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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