Brief Life History of Desire
When Desire Bowker was born on 12 October 1769, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edmond Bowker, was 37 and her mother, Lydia Lambert, was 34. She married Joseph Cushing Sr on 15 September 1790, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 19 September 1867, in Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 97.
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- Desire Cushing in household of Sally Pincin, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Desire Bowker, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Desire Bowker, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Manchester): occupational name for someone whose job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse it, from Middle English bouker(e), boker(e), buker(e) ‘bleacher of cloth’. The name was also sometimes confused with Booker , and sometimes perhaps a variant of Butcher , with Norman French -k- for -ch-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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