When Betsey W Elliott was born on 24 August 1784, in Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Nicholas Elliott, was 38 and her mother, Betty Flanders, was 29. She married Thompson Coon in 1799, in Landaff, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 24 March 1869, in Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, Orleans, Vermont, United States, at the age of 84.
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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.
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Eliot, a pet form of the Old Testament name Elijah, rendered in Greek as Ēlias and in Old French as Élie + the diminutive suffix -ot; compare Ellis . The name Aylett may in some cases also have been confused with or absorbed into Elliott.
Scottish: late variant of Elwood .
Scottish (of Breton origin): perhaps, as some members of the Elliott clan believe, a Scottish variant of the Breton surname Elleouet, a habitational name from one of the hamlets named Allegot in Finistère.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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