When Harrison Burgess was born on 3 September 1814, in Putnam, Washington, New York, United States, his father, William Burgess Sr., was 20 and his mother, Violate Stockwell, was 19. He married Sophia Minerva Foster on 1 July 1835, in Geauga, Ohio, United States. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 10 February 1883, in Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pine Valley Cemetery, Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, burgis, borgeis ‘inhabitant of a borough’ (strictly one possessing full municipal rights), ‘freeman of a borough’. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger .
Americanized form of French Bourgeois .
History: Thomas Burgess came from England to MA c. 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe Cholera epidemic of 1849 struck Hull in the spring and continued for two years. The British Parliament commissioned a study of cholera centered on Hull, specifically due to the unique impact the d …
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