Brief Life History of Dinah
When Dinah Hovey was born on 25 February 1767, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Captain Jacob Hovey, was 26 and her mother, Elisabeth Dimmock, was 23. She married Ethan Barrows on 15 April 1784, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 29 September 1841, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Old Storrs Cemetery, Stafford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Dinah Hovey, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Dinah Barrows, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Dinah Hovey, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1785
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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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the personal name Hwfa, of uncertain origin. The surname is more frequently found in the explicit patronymic form ap Hwfa ‘son of Hwfa’ (see Povey ) and forms with and without ap were still interchangeable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Old English personal name Hofig, a pet form of Old English Hofa (of uncertain origin but apparently from hof ‘temple’) + a hypocoristic suffix -ig. However, the absence of Middle English evidence for either the personal name or the surname leaves this explanation in doubt.
Americanized form of Dutch Hove .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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