When Harriet Fifield was born on 18 February 1808, in Unity, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Moses Fifield, was 47 and her mother, Lucy Levestone, was 40. She married James Harvey Dimond on 10 November 1831, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Siverly, Oil City, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 3 June 1892, at the age of 84.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fīf ‘five’ + hīde ‘hides’ (a hide being an Anglo-Saxon measurement of land area).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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