Brief Life History of Samuel Turner
When Samuel Turner Grindle was born on 18 May 1783, in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Daniel Grindle, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Gray, was 21.
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- Samuel Turner Grindle, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Town and vital records, 1732-1940
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Turner Grindle - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Samuel Turner Grindle
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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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1789
Historical Boundaries: 1789: Hancock, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Hancock, Maine, United States
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English grene ‘green’ + dale ‘dale, valley’ or hille, hull ‘hill’, or a habitational name from placenames meaning ‘green valley’ (Old English grēne + Old English dæl, dell, or Old Norse dalr), such as Greendale in Devon and Cumbria, Grindale in East Yorkshire, or a lost place originally called Grendale, Gryndale in Loftus (North Yorkshire), possibly identical with modern Grinkle in nearby Easington.
English: variant of Greenhill , with an intrusive -d-, as illustrated by the placename Grindle, in Ryton (Shropshire), which appears as Grenehull in Middle English but as Grendull and Grendle in the 16th century.
South German: from Middle High German grindel ‘latch, beam, pole’, probably a metonymic occupational name for a doorman.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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