When Margaret Mesick was born on 14 February 1753, in Claverack, Claverack, Columbia, New York, United States, her father, Johann Heinrich Muessig, was 38 and her mother, Anna Catharina Diederick, was 25. She married Johannes Best Jr on 14 December 1772, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 5 October 1831, in Livingston, Livingston, Columbia, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Livingston, Livingston, Columbia, New York, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
German: variant of Müssig (see Muessig ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this or of its less common variant Musig.
Americanized form of Croatian (and possibly also Bosniak) Mesić and Mešić, Slovenian Mešič (see Mesic , compare Messick 2).
Americanized form of Slovak Mesík, unexplained. Compare Messick 3.
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