When Johannes Meyer Jr was born on 8 July 1778, in Rockland, New York, United States, his father, Johannes Meyer, was 31 and his mother, Catharina VanHouten, was 23. He married Antje Christie on 30 November 1799, in Bergen, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1798: Rockland, New York, United States
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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