Brief Life History of Betsey W.
When Betsey W. Smith was born on 29 May 1782, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Constant Smith, was 36 and her mother, Martha Galusha, was 31. She married Shubael Franklin about 1802, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 14 May 1868, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Betsey Smith, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Betsey Smith Franklin, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
- Betsy Franklin, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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1783 · A Free America
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.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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