When William Fifield was born on 24 October 1784, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, William Fifield, was 33 and his mother, Dorothy Rhoda Eastman, was 28. He married Elizabeth Webster on 17 November 1808, in Plymouth, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 1 February 1828, in New Hampton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in New Hampton Village Cemetery, New Hampton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
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 from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fīf ‘five’ + hīde ‘hides’ (a hide being an Anglo-Saxon measurement of land area).
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