When John Harley was born on 13 February 1780, in Coventry Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Rudolph Becker Harley III, was 31 and his mother, Barbara Bach, was 29. He married Elizabeth Harleman in 1805. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 18 January 1826, at the age of 45, and was buried in East Coventry Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Harley (Shropshire, Yorkshire). The Shropshire placename derives from Old English hær ‘rock, heap of stones’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename derives from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær + hlāw ‘mound, hill’, later replaced by lēah.
Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F-. This name has also become Herley and Hurley . Compare Arrell and Harrell .
Scottish (Fife): habitational name from any of several places called Harlaw in Midlothian, Peeblesshire, and Berwickshire, named in Older Scots with hare ‘gray’ + law ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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