Brief Life History of Electa
When Electa Granger was born on 13 August 1783, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Seth Granger, was 28 and her mother, Lucy Clark, was 24. She married Peleg Shepard on 8 January 1807. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 12 July 1872, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Electa Shepherd in household of Joseph Shepherd, "United States Census, 1860"
- Electa Shepard, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Electa Shepard, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1788
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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