Brief Life History of William Manning
When William Manning Drake was born in March 1788, in Westford, Otsego, New York, United States, his father, Perez Drake, was 29 and his mother, Alice Manning, was 25. He married Jellamy Howard on 22 November 1812. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He died on 22 December 1831, in Georgetown, Georgetown, Madison, New York, United States, at the age of 43.
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- Billy Manning Drake, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
1791
Historical Boundaries 1791: Otsego, New York, United States
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: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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