When Margretha Klee was born about 1786, in Bern Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Abraham Clay or Klee, was 49 and her mother, Maria Catherine Grim, was 42.
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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.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Some characteristic forenames: German Ernst, Hans, Hellmut, Helmut, Horst, Kurt, Manfred, Otmar, Otto, Wolfgang.
German: possibly a nickname for a clover farmer, from Klee ‘clover’. Compare Clay and Clee .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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