Brief Life History of Betsey
When Betsey Granger was born on 2 September 1786, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Granger, was 45 and her mother, Lucy Campbell, was 43. She married Chauncey Woolworth in February 1807, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 5 April 1836, in Pinckney, Lewis, New York, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Elizabeth Granger Woolworth, "Find A Grave Index"
- Betsey in entry for Alfred Woolworth, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Betsey in entry for Alfred Woolworth, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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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