Brief Life History of Levi
When Levi Hardy was born on 16 September 1807, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Enos S. Hardy, was 35 and his mother, Mary Polly Lund, was 29. He married Mary Ann Minott on 2 December 1830, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Auburn, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years. He died on 10 December 1880, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Levi Hardy, "United States Census, 1860"
- Levi Hardy, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Levi Hardy, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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