When William Lapham was born on 13 November 1786, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Lapham, was 32 and his mother, Judith Smith, was 28. He married Mary Polly Hull on 15 December 1811, in Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 11 March 1859, in Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusetts, 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.
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: probably a habitational name from Lopham, a place in Norfolk, so named from an Old English personal name Loppa + hām ‘village, homestead’.
Americanized form of French Lapalme .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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