When Sarah Hill was born in 1785, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, her father, James Hill, was 38 and her mother, Ann Overton, was 22. She married Richard Garrett on 26 July 1806, in Amherst, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 1809, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 24.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle English hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille, a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary .
German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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