When George Grant Redden was born on 8 November 1790, in Somerset, New Jersey, United States, his father, Christopher Redden, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Grant, was 35. He married Adelia Higley on 8 December 1816, in Hiram, Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Hiram, Portage, Ohio, United States in 1820 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 19 June 1852, in At Sea, at the age of 61.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) was the first large business corporation in the United States. The organization was granted a charter by Governor William Paterson on November 22, 1791. The newly formed town was named Paterson, in honor of the governor.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Scottish: habitational name from Redden in Sprouston (Roxburghshire). Early-medieval spellings like Reuenden suggest that the placename is from Old English hræfna denu ‘ravens' valley’.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a patch of cleared woodland, from Middle English reden(e) (Old English ryden) ‘clearing’.
Irish: variant of Redding .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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