Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Byron Folsom was born on 12 July 1793, in Greenwich, Greenwich, Washington, New York, United States, her father, Reverend John Folsom, was 37 and her mother, Elisabeth File, was 32. She married George McPherson on 8 February 1814, in Albany, Albany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Albany, Albany, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1887, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York, United States.
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- Harriet McPherson in household of Theodore F Humphrey, "United States Census, 1870"
- Harriott B. Folsom Mcpherson, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Harriet in entry for William McPherson, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
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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.
1797
Became State Capitol in 1797
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: habitational name from Byram (Yorkshire), named with Old English bȳrum ‘at the cattle sheds’, dative plural of bȳre ‘byre’. This name has occasionally been adopted as a Jewish surname, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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