Brief Life History of Polly
When Polly Adams was born on 11 December 1793, in Limerick, York, Maine, United States, her father, Thomas Fisher Adams, was 21 and her mother, Mary Perry, was 26. She married Thomas Foster. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Vacaville Judicial Township, Solano, California, United States in 1860. She died in 1868, in Dixon, Solano, California, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Polly Foster in household of Hubert H Foster, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Polly Adams - Church record: birth: 11 December 1791; Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States
- Polly Adams Foster, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1804 · Whitehead Light
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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