When Deborah Keith was born on 26 March 1779, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Comfort Keith, was 37 and her mother, Jerusha Aldrich, was 28. She married Luther Taft on 16 October 1803, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 28 December 1861, in Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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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.
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Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
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