When Thankful Tirzah Taylor was born on 11 January 1764, in Sodus Center, Wayne, New York, United States, her father, Rev. James Taylor, was 34 and her mother, Mary Field, was 22. She married Seth Hawks Jr on 20 January 1781, in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 1 February 1823, in her hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Wayne, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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