When Elizabeth Perley Howard was born about 1829, in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Howard, was 34 and her mother, Laurinda Woodbury, was 30. She married Edwin Augustus Dudley on 9 May 1849, in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870 and Tuscarora, Steuben, New York, United States in 1880. In 1870, at the age of 42, her occupation is listed as keeping house . She died on 24 April 1902, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Anoka, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Anoka, Minnesota, United States
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
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