When Hannah Snyder was born in 1808, in Broome, Schoharie, New York, United States, her father, Christian Lawyer, was 40 and her mother, Elisabeth Schneider, was 39. She married Ogden Benjamin about 1829, in Broome, Schoharie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 April 1884, at the age of 76, and was buried in Franklinton, Broome, Schoharie, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants, such as Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider 1).
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Snijder, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.
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