Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Lester was born on 3 July 1786, in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Lester, was 32 and her mother, Abigail Hull, was 33. She married James Wright on 25 July 1802, in Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 28 September 1869, in Griswold, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Sarah Lester, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
- Sarah Lester, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
- Sarah Lester, "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977"
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World Events (8)
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
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.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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