When Abigail Bickford was born in 1782, in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, United States, her father, John Bickford, was 23 and her mother, Elisabeth Pearl, was 25. She married Nicholas Morrill on 27 November 1805, in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died after 8 March 1852, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
English: habitational name from either Beckford Farm in Membury (Devon), Bickford Town in Plympton Saint Mary (Devon), or Bickford in Staffordshire. Beckford Farm is from the Old English personal name Becca + Old English ford ‘ford’, whereas the other two examples are derived from the Old English personal name Bicca + ford ‘ford’. The surname is more common in Devon and Cornwall.
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