Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Eastman was born on 27 March 1784, in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, James Eastman, was 23 and her mother, Esther Stearns, was 26. She married Nathaniel Tenney Herrick on 30 November 1806, in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 25 February 1825, in Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Betterley Cemetery, Newfane, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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- Lydia Eastman, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Lydia Eastman Herrick, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lydia Eastman in entry for James Herrick, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1791 · Vermont Becomes 14th State
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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