When Margaret Peggy Kirkham was born on 29 August 1776, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, her father, Michael Williams Kirkham Sr., was 30 and her mother, Nancy Agnes Campbell, was 27. She married Josiah Harris on 3 August 1799, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Israel Township, Preble, Ohio, United States in 1820. She died on 28 August 1839, in Preble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Morning Sun, Preble, Ohio, United States.
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On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (mainly northwestern): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Kirkham. The placenames derive from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English hām ‘village, homestead’ or Old Norse heim ‘homestead, estate’.
Possibly an altered form of German Kirchham, a habitational name from either of two places called Kirchham, in Austria or Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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