When Rhoda Gilman was born on 16 June 1806, in Alton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, her father, David Gilman, was 26 and her mother, Rhoda Hunt, was 26. She married Moses Gilman on 2 February 1832, in Strafford, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 11 December 1857, in Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 51.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English: from a personal name, Old French Guillemin, Anglo-Norman French Willemin, pet forms of Guillelmes, Guillaumes, and Willelmes (see William ).
Altered form of German Gillmann (see Gillman ).
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