When Amy Hughes was born on 16 December 1787, in Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Job Hughes, was 47 and her mother, Eleanor Lee, was 37. She married Stephen Bowerman on 18 January 1812, in York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in East Hawkesbury Township, Prescott and Russell, Canada West, British North America in 1851. She died on 31 July 1863, in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bloomfield, Prince Edward, Canada West, British North America.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest against taxes on whiskey by farmers and distillers. People were tarred and feathered. They attacked Bower Hill and headed towards Pittsburgh. The militia was sent in to try and stop it. It finally ended with a repeal of the tax.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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