When Isaac Bunker Jr. was born about 1800, in Sullivan, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Isaac Bunker, Jr., was 29 and his mother, Mary "Polly" Hadlock, was 27. He married Betsey Williams on 1 August 1829. He lived in Hancock, Maine, United States in 1860 and Township 7 SD, Hancock, Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 6 August 1876, in Maine, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hancock, Maine, United States.
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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.
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
Maine is the 23rd state.
English: nickname, of Norman origin, for a reliable or good-hearted person, from Old French bon ‘good’ + cuer ‘heart’ (from Latin cor).
German (Bünker): variant of Bönker (see Boenker ).
History: Bunker Hill in Charlestown, MA, was named as land assigned in 1634 to George Bunker of Charlestown, who had emigrated from Odell in Bedfordshire, England.
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