Joel Field

Brief Life History of Joel

When Joel Field was born on 27 October 1786, in Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Solomon Field, was 40 and his mother, Mary Wright, was 34. He married Philinda Wilder on 19 August 1819, in Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 3 September 1838, in his hometown, at the age of 51, and was buried in North Shirkshire Cemetery, Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joel Field
1786–1838
Philinda Wilder
1794–1890
Marriage: 19 August 1819
Consider Wilder Field
1820–1876
Israel Wilder Field
1823–1863
Mary Wilder Field
1825–1913
Joel Field Jr
1827–1915
Rebecca Field
1829–1872
Philinda Mercy Field
1831–1871

Sources (26)

  • Joel Field, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Joel Field, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Joel Field in entry for Joel Field, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"

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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1792

Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

Name Meaning

English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .

English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).

Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.

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

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