When Hannah Wood was born on 3 May 1784, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Solomon Wood, was 39 and her mother, Hannah Fish, was 39. She married Ezekiel Wood on 6 May 1809, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 23 February 1861, in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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