When Elijah Leathe Jr was born on 21 October 1786, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Elijah Leathe Jr, was 31 and his mother, Hephzibah Brooks, was 24. He married Margaret Clark on 7 March 1807, in Wilton, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 13 October 1863, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire): metonymic occupational name for a leatherworker or seller of leather goods, from Middle English lether, Old English lether ‘leather’.
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