When Olive Towner was born on 18 July 1782, in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Ephraim Towner Jr, was 30 and her mother, Olive Willoughby, was 23. She married Samuel Wadhams on 12 February 1812, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Goshen, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1850. She died on 5 March 1858, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 75.
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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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
"In 1802, brass was identified in Waterbury, Connecticut. This gave the city the nickname ""The Brass City."" Brass dominated the city and helped to create the city. The motto of the city is Quid Aere Perennius, which means What is more lasting than brass? in Latin."
English (Sussex and Kent):
topographic name from Middle English toun(e), ton(e) ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn) + -er, for someone who lived in a ‘town’. Compare Town .
perhaps occasionally an occupational name for a toll taker or tax collector, from tolenar, an agent derivative of Middle English toll ‘tax, payment’. Compare Towler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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