Brief Life History of Hannah James
When Hannah James Churchman was born on 18 January 1794, in Nottingham MM, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Edward Churchman, was 36 and her mother, Rebecca Peirce, was 28.
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- Hannah James Churchman, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Hannah Churchman, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Hannah James Churchman, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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World Events (3)
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.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English chirch(e)man ‘clergyman; churchwarden; lay official responsible for church finances’. The earliest examples would have denoted a custodian or keeper of a church (Old English cyriceman), not a clergyman, though the earlier sense had probably been superseded by the time the surname arose.
Possibly an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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