When James Merrill was born on 6 May 1719, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Merrill, was 41 and his mother, Judith Kent, was 38. He married Mary Osgood on 18 January 1739, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1798, in Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 79.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
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