When Lydia Gravatt was born on 3 April 1804, in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, her father, Peter Robert Gravatt Sr, was 25 and her mother, Mary Wilgus, was 23. She married Ezekiel Hopkins on 11 September 1825, in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 20 March 1845, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 40.
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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.
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.
English (Sussex and Surrey): topographic name for someone probably living near a small grove or copse, from Middle English gravet, grevet, meaning either ‘small wood’ or ‘trench’. The true sense is uncertain as gravet could be a diminutive of Old English grāf or grǣfe ‘grove’ or of Old English graf or græfe ‘dug place, trench, ditch’. The term is found mainly in Hampshire, Sussex, and Surrey.
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