Elijah Fitch Jr.
1 March 1819–20 May 1841 (Age 22)
Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
The Life Summary of Elijah
When Elijah Fitch Jr. was born on 1 March 1819, in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Elijah Fitch, was 40 and his mother, Mary Valentine, was 41. He died on 20 May 1841, at the age of 22.
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Family Time Line
Elijah Fitch Jr.
1819–1841
Elizabeth Valentine
1820–
Spouse and Children
1819–1841Male
1820–Female
Parents and Siblings
1778–1847Male
1778–1835Female
Siblings
(12)
1801–1857Male
1802–1888Female
1803–1883Male
1805–1899Male
1807–1862Female
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World Events (6)
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 1
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 1
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
Age 1
1820 · Making Land more affordable
Age 1
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 11
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 11
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
from Old French fiche, perhaps ‘pointed implement for fixing or transfixing something or someone’ (such as a lance?), a derivative of Old French fichier ‘to fix, fasten, pin on, stick into, pierce’. Compare Modern French fiche ‘peg, pin’. Reaney remarks that ‘as Hugh Malet is said to have abandoned for a time his nickname ‘little hammer’ in favor of Fichet (see Mallet ), fiche must have been used of a pointed weapon, a spear or lance, and Fitch and Fitchett (see Fitchett ) of a spearman or a knight famous for his exploits with the lance’. Use of Fiche as a personal name is possibly implied by diminutive personal name forms such as Fechet (see Fitchett ) and Fechel, attested in Fechel de Fercalahn, 1225–50. The latter is perhaps the source of the now extinct English surname Fetchell.occasionally a variant of Fitz .English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Fitchett
Mallet
Sources (3)
- Elijah Fitch, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Elijah Fitch, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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