Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Huffington was born about 1782, in Sussex, Delaware, United States, her father, William Huffington, was 45 and her mother, Susannah Coleburn, was 38. She lived in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware, United States in 1830. She died in July 1858, in Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 77.
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1787
Delaware was the first state to ratify the federal Constitution -- December 7, 1787, becoming the first state in the Union
1802 · DuPont Gunpowder Mill Established
in 1802, Eleuth�re Ir�n�� du Pont established the DuPont gun mill. It was the largest maker of explosive black powder. It was located along the Brandywine River near Wilmington.
Name Meaning
English (East Yorkshire):
habitational name from Uffington (Lincolnshire) or possibly from Ufton Court in Tunstall or Uffington Farm in Goodnestone (both Kent), all from the Old English personal name Uffa + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
in Yorkshire, sometimes a variant of Ovington .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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