Brief Life History of Eleazer
When Pvt Eleazer Ring was born on 31 December 1749, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Kingston Ring, was 47 and his mother, Sarah Mitchell, was 30. He married Elizabeth Day on 22 January 1774, in Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1749. He died on 5 May 1814, in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Ireland Street Cemetery, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Eleazer Ring, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eleazer Ring en tant qu’entrée de Eleazer Ring, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924"
- Eleazer Ring, "Find A Grave Index"
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1772
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
Name Meaning
English, Danish, German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rings (from Middle English ring, Middle High German rinc, Middle Dutch ring), either to be worn as jewelry or as component parts of chain-mail, harnesses, and other objects. It may also have arisen as a nickname for a wearer of a ring. This name (of German origin) is also found in Slovenia and in Czechia. Compare English Ringer and German Rink .
Norwegian: variant of Ringen .
German: topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rink, rinc ‘circle’ for someone who lived at a square or market place; or a nickname for a quick or slight, small person, from Middle High German ringe ‘quick, nimble; small, not noteworthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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