Brief Life History of Cornelius
When Cornelius Winters was born about 1794, in New Jersey, United States, his father, Hendrik Winter, was 39 and his mother, Ellen Lettice Courter, was 37. He married Margaret Gerow about 1819, in Oakland, Bergen, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Franklin Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1850. He died in 1856, in Wyckoff, Wyckoff Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Wyckoff, Wyckoff Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
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- Cornelius Winter, "United States Census, 1850"
- Cornelius Winters, "Find A Grave Index"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1804
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Dutch and German: patronymic from Winter .
English: variant of Winter , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted for Mac Giolla Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. Compare Winter 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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