When John Waterhouse was born on 15 May 1721, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Timothy Waterhouse, was 47 and his mother, Ruth Moses, was 41. He married Hannah Ham in 1743, in Strawbery Banke, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 19 August 1797, in Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 76.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
English (mainly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived in a house by a stretch of water, from Middle English water ‘water’ + hous ‘house’.
History: Richard Waterhouse, a tanner from Yorkshire, England, emigrated to Portsmouth, NH, in 1669.
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