When Alpheus Gifford was born on 28 August 1793, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Noah Samuel Gifford, was 34 and his mother, Mary Bowerman, was 34. He married Anna Nash on 27 April 1817, in Butternuts, Otsego, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Rutland Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1830. In 1834, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as proselytizing in Northern States Mission, United States. He died on 25 December 1841, in Niota, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Historical Boundaries: 1804: Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Giffard, either from the Middle English personal name Gifard, derived from an Old French name of this form deriving from ancient Germanic geb- ‘give, gift’ + hard- ‘hardy, brave’, or perhaps sometimes a nickname from Old French gif(f)ard ‘chubby-cheeked, bloated’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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