Brief Life History of Phebe
When Phebe Vail was born on 14 March 1792, in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, her father, William Vail, was 25 and her mother, Jemima Coles, was 22. She married George Washington Dunham on 11 April 1812, in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Union, New Jersey, United States in 1860 and New Jersey, United States in 1870. She died on 5 October 1881, in Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, Union, New Jersey, United States.
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- Phebe Dunham in household of Geo W Dunham, "United States Census, 1860"
- Phebe Dunham, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
- Phebe Dunham in entry for Clarkson C Dunham and Jane E Jones, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1804
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Old French de la veille ‘of the watch, watchman’, with loss of de; compare Wake . There has been some confusion with the topographic name Vale and the nickname Veal .
Scottish: shortened and altered form of McPhail , Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phàil ‘son of Paul’.
Irish: variant of Veale .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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