Brief Life History of Silas
When Silas Granger was born on 6 December 1779, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, George Granger, was 39 and his mother, Lucy Campbell, was 37. He married Nancy G. Sheldon on 28 January 1810, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mantua, Portage, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 23 December 1860, in Burton, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Burton, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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- Silas Granger, "United States Census, 1820"
- Silas Granger, "BillionGraves Index"
- Silas Granger in entry for Henry S. Porter and Matilda Granger, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).
French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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