Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Tryon was born on 13 July 1786, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Benjamin Tryon, was 41 and his mother, Mary Webb, was 34. He had at least 3 daughters with Mary. He lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States for about 30 years. He died on 21 February 1852, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.
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- Henry Tryon, "United States Census, 1850"
- Henry Tryon, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Henry ...yon, "New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1788
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire): altered form of Dutch Trion, itself a shortened variant of Tirion, a cognate of Walloon and French Thiry .
History: A Northamptonshire family of this name trace their descent from Peter Trieon (died 1611), who went to England from the Netherlands c. 1562. His son, Moses Tryon, was high sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1624. William Tryon (born 1729 in Surrey, England) was the last provincial governor of NY; he gave his name to Tryon County, the district which took in the Mohawk Valley; after the American Revolution this huge area was split into Montgomery, Fulton, and other counties.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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