Brief Life History of Olive Hancock
When Olive Hancock Messinger was born on 6 April 1778, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Messenger, was 42 and her mother, Olive Ware, was 34. She married Jeremiah Kinsman on 31 August 1798, in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 5 November 1857, in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Olive Kinsman in household of Jeremiah Kinsman, "United States Census, 1850"
- Olive Hancock Messinger, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Olive Kinsman, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1781 · The First Constitution
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.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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