Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Barton was born in 1783, in Great Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Barton, was 27 and her mother, Esther Howland, was 25. She married John Purdy about 1803, in Putnam, New York, United States. She lived in Dutchess, New York, United States in 1745. She died in June 1869, in Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 86.
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- Quaker records, Saratoga, NY
- Legacy NFS Source: Esther BARTON -
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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