When Amos Sanborn was born on 21 May 1726, in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Stephen Sanborn Jr, was 32 and his mother, Ruth Leavitt, was 33. He married Polly Chandler in 1759. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 11 March 1815, in his hometown, at the age of 88, and was buried in Moultonborough, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
English: habitational name probably from Sambourne in Warminster or Sambourn in Minety (both Wiltshire), but perhaps also from Sambourne (Warwickshire). The placenames all derive from Old English sand ‘sand’ + burna ‘spring, stream’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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