When Sara Spinney was born about 1808, in Kittery, York, Maine, United States, her father, Ebenezer Spinney, was 30 and her mother, Alice "Elsey" Paul, was 29.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Maine is the 23rd state.
English: from Middle English spyn(n)eye ‘spinney’ i.e. a small patch of woodland, clump of trees (Old French espinei ‘place where thorn trees grow’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a thicket or small copse, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Spinney Abbey in Wicken (Cambridgeshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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