When Stephen Thayer was born on 4 October 1794, in Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, United States, his father, Stephen Thayer, was 28 and his mother, Anna Twitchell, was 24. He married Oliva Hawley in 1820. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 October 1837, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Briar Hill Cemetery, Briar Hill Corners, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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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.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
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