Brief Life History of Mary "Polly"
When Mary "Polly" Hall was born on 3 May 1770, in Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Deacon Benjamin Hall, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Ingalls, was 21. She married Elijah F Burr in 1790, in Kingsboro, Gloversville, Fulton, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 November 1852, in Cuba, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cuba Cemetery, Cuba, Cuba, Allegany, New York, United States.
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- Mary 'Polly' Hall Burr, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Burr in entry for Eli R Burr, "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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