When Marie Françoise Grisez was born on 29 March 1786, in Frahier-et-Châtebier, Haute-Saône, France, her father, Jean Jacques Grisez Jr., was 22 and her mother, Jeanne Marie Ducotey, was 26. She married Stanislaus "Tans, Tannis" Pequignot on 16 August 1811, in Frahier, Haute-Saône, France. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 7 February 1856, in Frenchtown, Darke, Ohio, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Darke, Ohio, United States.
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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.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Some characteristic forenames: French Germain.
French (eastern): nickname for a man with gray hair, a gray complexion, or perhaps one who habitually wore gray, from a derivative of Old French gris ‘gray’.
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