When Sarah Balderston was born on 15 June 1772, in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Timothy Cooper Balderston Sr., was 26 and her mother, Rachel Twining, was 20. She married Samuel P White Jr on 22 April 1802, in Falls Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1868, in New Brighton, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Grove Cemetery, New Brighton, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire called Balderston(e), deriving their names from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Baldhere (composed of the elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + here ‘army’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from Balderston in West Lothian, which has the same etymology as 1 above.
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