Brief Life History of Amanda
When Amanda Holmes was born in 1794, in Remsen, Oneida, New York, United States, her father, Elijah Holmes, was 40 and her mother, Hannah Pattison, was 32. She married Hull Tuttle about 1812, in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States for about 20 years and De Kalb, De Kalb, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880. She died in 1882, in Bolton, Warren, New York, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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- Amanda Tuttle, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mrs Hull Tuttle, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- Amanda Tuttle in household of Hull Tuttle, "United States Census, 1850"
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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.
1799
The town of Bolton was formed from part of the town of Thurman in 1799
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: either from the plural form of Holme , or else a variant of Holme or Home , with excrescent -s (see Holm ).
Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald (Ayrshire), or possibly from another place so called in the barony of Inchestuir (Angus). Both placenames likely derive from the plural form of Middle English, Older Scots holm ‘islet, raised land in a marsh’ (see Holm ).
Scottish and Irish: adopted for Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Thómais, Mac Thómais (see McComb ). In parts of western Ireland, Holmes is also a variant of Cavish, from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas . Early bearers in Ireland were probably immigrants from Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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