When Moses Pickard was born on 4 December 1774, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jeremiah Pickard, was 27 and his mother, Mehitable Dresser, was 24. He married Elizabeth Jones on 2 February 1809, in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 8 January 1859, in Stewartstown, Coos, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Stewartstown, Coos, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German: habitational name for someone from Picardy in northern France (see Picard 1).
English: in some cases, possibly also from the Old French personal name Picard, probably from an ancient Germanic name, composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point, pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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