Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Harding was born on 21 December 1800, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Prince Harding Sr., was 30 and her mother, Hannah Morse, was 26. She married John Taylor IV on 30 April 1819, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 22 April 1874, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Hannah Taylor in household of John Taylor, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Harding - birth: 21 December 1800; Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
- Hannah Taylor, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Harding (Old English Hearding, literally ‘the hard one’ a derivative of Old English heard ‘hard, harsh, strong, firm, brave’). The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, or a habitational name from a farm named Harding, of the same etymology.
History: Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923), the 29th president of the US, was born on a farm in OH, of English and Scottish stock on his father's side. Early American bearers of this very common name include Joseph Harding who died at Plymouth in 1633. His great-great grandson Seth was a naval officer during the American Revolution.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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