Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Somerby was born on 13 March 1779, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathan Somerby, was 28 and her mother, Mary Foote, was 25. She married Paul G Lunt Jr on 21 June 1800, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 8 November 1845, in her hometown, at the age of 66, and was buried in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mary Somerby, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mary Somerby, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Mary Somerby Lunt, "Find A Grave Index"
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1781 · The First Constitution
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.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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: habitational name from any of various places in northern England called Sowerby, including Sowerby Bridge (Yorkshire), Castle Sowerby (Cumberland), Brough and Temple Sowerby (Westmorland), Sowerby and Sowerby under Cotcliffe (North Yorkshire), and Sowerby near Inskip and Sowerby Hall in Dalton (Lancashire). The placenames derive from Old Norse saurr ‘mud, sour ground’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Placenames of identical origin are also found in Scotland (as Sorbie in Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, and Wigtownshire, as Soroba in Argyll, and as Soroby on Tiree); also on the Isle of Man (as Surby).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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