When Hannah Hayden was born in 1784, in Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Taylor Hayden, was 35 and her mother, Charity Gard, was 34. She died on 6 December 1811, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Fairchance, Fayette, Pennsylvania, 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.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .
English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.
Jewish: variant of Heiden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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