Brief Life History of Sophia
When Sophia Burr was born on 4 April 1808, in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Asa Burr, was 30 and her mother, Polly Ellis, was 27. She married George J Edwards on 24 August 1828, in Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 18 November 1890, in Richmond, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Richmond, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.
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- Sophia Edwards in household of Geo Edwards, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sophia Burr, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Sophia Burr, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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