Brief Life History of Judah
When Judah Ely was born on 2 September 1785, in Wilbraham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Judah Ely, was 32 and his mother, Anna Warriner, was 32. He married Lucia Sisson on 2 October 1808, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He died on 9 November 1826, in Hambden Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Hambden, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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- Judah Ely, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Judah Ely, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Judah Ely, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Ely, a cathedral city on an island in the fens north of Cambridge, so named from Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + gē ‘district’.
English, French, and Breton (Finistère): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Elie, Hely (Elijah in the King James Bible); see Ellis and Elias .
English: variant of Healey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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