When Martha Deming was born on 14 July 1776, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Peter Deming, was 42 and her mother, Jerusha Welles, was 37. She married Captain George Stillman Sr on 22 March 1797, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 8 February 1848, at the age of 71.
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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.
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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.
English: variant of Deeming, a nickname for a judge from Middle English deming ‘judgement, adjudication; verdict; the act of conducting a trial’ (Old English dēmung ‘judgement, act of judging’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a judge or for an arbiter of minor disputes. Compare Deem , Deamer and Doman .
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