Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Sawyer was born on 21 April 1793, in Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Josiah Sawyer, was 32 and her mother, Martha Eastman, was 32. She married Reuben Leavitt on 19 November 1809, in Belmont, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 14 August 1826, in her hometown, at the age of 33, and was buried in Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Hannah Sawyer, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Hannah Sawyer, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Hannah Sawyer Leavitt, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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