Brief Life History of Clarissa
Clarissa Baker was born in 1784, in New York, United States. She married Abel Farrington about 1805, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fox Lake, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States in 1850. She died in 1860, in Dodge, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76.
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- Clarrissa Farrington in household of Harvey P Farrington, "United States Census, 1850"
- Clarissa Baker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Clarissa Farrington in entry for Lorenzo D. Farrington and Fannie A. Parker, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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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.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .
History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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