Brief Life History of Elias
When Elias Post was born in April 1791, in Bergen, New Jersey, United States, his father, Adrian Peter Post, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Spier, was 33. He married Lucretia Elliott on 4 April 1823, in Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sheshequin, Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 15 August 1862, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Post Cemetery, Sheshequin, Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Elias Post, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elias Post, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- Elias Post, "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
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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