Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Twitchell was born on 7 September 1840, in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Bennett Twitchell, was 35 and his mother, Polly C. Smith, was 34. He married Mrs Nettie A. Twitchell about 1861, in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. He lived in Bethany, Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America for about 50 years. He died on 11 April 1905, in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Naugatuck, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- John H Twichell, "United States Census, 1850"
- John H. Twitchell, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- John Twitchell in entry for Sarah J. Twitchell, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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