When Calvin Tryon was born on 27 December 1826, in New York, United States, his father, Luther Tryon, was 46 and his mother, Nancy Ann Bradley, was 35. He married Achsa Andress on 22 December 1852, in Oxford Township, Erie, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Roggen, Weld, Colorado, United States in 1900. He died on 25 August 1902, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire): altered form of Dutch Trion, itself a shortened variant of Tirion, a cognate of Walloon and French Thiry .
History: A Northamptonshire family of this name trace their descent from Peter Trieon (died 1611), who went to England from the Netherlands c. 1562. His son, Moses Tryon, was high sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1624. William Tryon (born 1729 in Surrey, England) was the last provincial governor of NY; he gave his name to Tryon County, the district which took in the Mohawk Valley; after the American Revolution this huge area was split into Montgomery, Fulton, and other counties.
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