When Sarah Birdsall was born on 14 September 1784, in New Jersey, United States, her father, Joseph Birdsall, was 27 and her mother, Hannah Cox, was 23. She married Esek Aldrich on 14 April 1811, in Farmington, Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 7 December 1857, in Farmington, Ontario, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in North Farmington Friends Cemetery, Farmington, Ontario, New York, United States.
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"Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two ""houses"" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested)."
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Birdsall, near Malton, in North Yorkshire, so named with the genitive case of Old English bridd ‘bird’ (as either a vocabulary word or a byname) + Old English halh ‘nook, recess’.
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