When Hezekiah Wadsworth was born on 30 December 1784, his father, Joseph Wadsworth, was 46 and his mother, Jerusha Marsh, was 36. He married Celestia Eldridge on 9 October 1805, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1810. He died in 1813, in Farmington, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 29.
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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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, Yorkshire. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Wæddi (genitive Wæddes) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
History: William Wadsworth came from England to Cambridge, MA, in 1632, and in 1636 accompanied Thomas Hooker as one of the founders of Hartford, CT. — John Wadsworth (died 1787) was a fellow of Harvard College and is buried in the old burial ground in Cambridge, MA. Peleg Wadsworth, born in Duxbury, MA, 1748, was a revolutionary war general and grandfather of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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