Brief Life History of Festus
When Festus Butts was born on 24 March 1779, in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ebenezer Butts, was 31 and his mother, Prudence Glass, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Susannah. He lived in Summerhill, Cayuga, New York, United States for about 5 years.
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- Justus Butts, "United States Census, 1850"
- Festus Butt, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Festus Butts, "Find A Grave Index"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1799
Historical Boundaries 1799: Cayuga, New York, United States
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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