Brief Life History of Sarah J.
Sarah J. Leach was born on 11 April 1778, in Pennsylvania, United States. She married J. Smith in 1796, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Bethel Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1820 and Sandusky Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 6 February 1856, in Fremont, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fourmile House Cemetery, Sandusky Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Sarah Smith, "United States Census, 1820"
- Sarah Minic, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Sarah Waggoner, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1780
Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
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.
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: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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