Brief Life History of Betsey
When Betsey Drake was born on 2 April 1790, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Francis Drake Sr, was 27 and her mother, Phebe Goodenough, was 29. She married Jonathan Cutler Rist about 1810. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1841, in Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, at the age of 52.
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- Betsey Rist in entry for Moses Cutter Rist and Sarah A. Minnen, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Betsey Rist in entry for Moses Cutter Rist and Sarah A. Minnen, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
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World Events (8)
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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