When Phineas Reeves Bird was born on 29 January 1802, in Morris Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, Benjamin Freeman Bird, was 23 and his mother, Maribah Reeves, was 17. He married Millicent Coleman in 1823, in Union, Essex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Southport, Chemung, New York, United States in 1830 and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 25 July 1850, in Rocky Hill, Gillespie, Texas, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Gillespie, Texas, United States.
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Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.
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English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names(Adapted from "Benjamin Freeman Bird: Son and Father of Pioneers," by Julie Cannon Markham) In 1840, Phineas purchased property in Nauvoo across the street and down a block from his father, Benjamin …
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