Brief Life History of Ezra
When Ezra Hardy was born on 29 May 1809, in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jacob Hardy, was 39 and his mother, Hannah Hardy, was 41. He married Martha Day Perkins Hardy on 17 November 1847, in Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 23 May 1881, in Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Ezra Hardy, "Massachusetts, State Census, 1865"
- Ezra Hardy, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Ejou Hardy, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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