When Deborah Reed was born on 28 August 1785, in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Reed, was 36 and her mother, Deborah Holden, was 31. She married Amos Kenney in 1805, in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 19 August 1835, in Langdon, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Upper Langdon Cemetery, Langdon, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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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.
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL SITE: Esther Prouty Whitney BIRTH 11 Jun 1765 Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 1 Feb 1792 (aged 26) Langdon, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA BURIAL Upper Langdon Cemetery, Langdon, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA MEMORIAL ID 181689926
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.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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