When William Paddock was born on 15 February 1784, in Schaghticoke, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York, United States, his father, Henrich Paddock, was 32 and his mother, Mary Shear, was 30. He married Deborah Fenton on 11 May 1806, in Broadalbin, Fulton, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wolcott, Wolcott, Wayne, New York, United States in 1860 and Huron, Wayne, New York, United States in 1870. He died on 4 February 1873, in Sodus Point, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Huron Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, New York, 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.
In 1794, the village was the site of the first European-American settlement in Sodus town. Before the American Revolution, the area for centuries was the territory of the Onondaga Nation.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: nickname from Middle English paddok(e) ‘toad, frog’ (Old English padde + uc).
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