When John Starr was born on 7 August 1794, in Roaring Creek Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Starr, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Kinsler, was 25. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Deborah Martin. He died on 27 May 1851, in Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56, and was buried in Arkona Cemetery, Arkona, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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