When Martha Patty Haight was born on 3 October 1784, in Washington, Dutchess, New York, United States, her father, Moses I Haight, was 29 and her mother, Peggy Spears, was 28. She married Samuel B. Lee about 1802. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 15 August 1855, at the age of 70.
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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.
Established in 1788
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
possibly a variant of Hight , a topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill. This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
perhaps sometimes a nickname from Middle English hait ‘merry; revelry’.
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