Brief Life History of Cornelia
When Cornelia Stryker was born on 9 June 1783, in Millstone Borough, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, her father, Domenicus Johannes Stryker, was 49 and her mother, Jannetje Vanderveer, was 30. She married Isaac Stryker about 1806, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 3 July 1859, in her hometown, at the age of 76, and was buried in Millstone Borough, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.
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- Tombstone, Millstone Cemetery, New Jersey
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1787 · New Jersey Plan
"Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two ""houses"" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested)."
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Strijker, from Middle Dutch striker, an occupational name for a measurer (of cloth or linen) or for someone whose job was to smooth cloth or to fill level measures of grain by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess.
Possibly also English: variant of Striker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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