When Eleanor Post was born on 6 January 1808, in New York City, New York, United States, her father, John I. Post, was 32 and her mother, Agnes Forman, was 28. She married Curtis Edwin Bolton on 15 June 1836, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 13 July 1837, in her hometown, at the age of 29, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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.
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCurtis Edwin Bolton and Rebecca Baks Bunker This picture, upper left, purports to be a picture of Curtis Edwin Bolton and his first wife Eleanor Post. The picture on the right is Rebecca Baks B …
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