Brief Life History of Betsey Kittredge
When Betsey Kittredge Foster was born on 30 August 1817, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Foster, was 46 and her mother, Anna Kittridge, was 32. She married Capt. Jonas Jefferson Adams on 3 February 1844, in Carlisle, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States in 1860 and New Hampshire, United States in 1870. She died on 8 May 1874, in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Loudon, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Betsey K Adams in household of Jonas J Adams, "United States Census, 1860"
- Betsy Kittridge Foster, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Betsey K. Foster, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (6)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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