When Thomas Jefferson Quay was born on 20 March 1806, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Quay, was 34 and his mother, Sarah John, was 29. He married Rebecca Shoffner on 21 February 1836, in Chester Springs, West Pikeland Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in East Whiteland Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and West Whiteland Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 13 December 1881, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Chester Springs, West Pikeland Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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.
Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McKay or McKee .
English: variant of Kay .
French: topographic name for someone who lived in a house on a quayside, from Old French quai ‘quay’.
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