Rachel Granger

Brief Life History of Rachel

When Rachel Granger was born on 10 December 1777, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Granger, was 37 and her mother, Lucy Campbell, was 35. She married Elijah Dewey in April 1797, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Johnston, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died in 1837, in Richmond Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Richmond Center, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elijah Dewey
1773–1827
Rachel Granger
1777–1837
Marriage: April 1797
Eli Dewey
1796–1860
Orson Dewey
1800–
Harry Dewey
1802–1804
Asa Dewey
1802–1839
Harry Dewey
1805–1838
Richard Dewey
1806–1852
Diedema Dewey
1808–1836
Reuben Dewey
1810–1896
Newell Dewey
1813–1865
David Bradley Dewey
1817–1886

Sources (6)

  • Rachel Dewey, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Rachel Granger Dewey, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Rachel in entry for Richard Dewey and Clarissa Church, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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World Events (8)

1781 · The First Constitution

Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

1783 · A Free America

The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).

French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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