When Elizabeth Decker was born on 20 January 1822, in New Jersey, United States, her father, James Jacobus Vanderveer Decker, was 35 and her mother, Jane Elizabeth Luke, was 29. She married Dr. John B Squier on 3 October 1840, in Crawford, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 20 July 1848, in Crawford, Ohio, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Blowers Cemetery, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States.
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"Corfield vs Coryell was a significant federal court case that upheld New Jersey's existing regulation, which prohibited any non-residents from gathering clams and oysters. The case was decided by Justice Bushrod Washington of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Justice Washington primarily referenced the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, regarding ""privileges and immunities"" to arrive at his decision."
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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