When Amy Hawxhurst was born in 1718, in Oyster Bay Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samson Hawxhurst, was 48 and her mother, Hannah Townsend, was 38. She had at least 9 sons and 3 daughters with John Greene. She lived in Oyster Bay, Queens, New York, United States in 1810.
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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.
Probably an altered form of Hawkhurst, an Englishhabitational name from Hawkhurst, a place in Kent, named from OldEnglish hafoc ‘hawk’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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