When Huldah Peirce was born on 8 February 1796, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathan Pierce, was 37 and her mother, Anna Hoar, was 33. She married Ephraim Pratt on 31 May 1815, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in New Hampshire, United States in 1870 and Sterling, Texas, United States in 1887. She died on 13 May 1887, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Locks Village Cemetery, Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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English: variant of Pierce .
History: The name Peirce first appears in colonial American records in 1623with William Peirce, an English shipmaster who compiled the firstalmanac in English America.
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