Brief Life History of Simeon
When Simeon Whittier was born on 23 January 1807, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Thomas N Whittier, was 49 and his mother, Elizabeth Eastman, was 45.
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian tēwian ‘to taw’.
History: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), poet and active opponent of slavery, was descended from Thomas Whittier, who came to MA from England in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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