When Magdelene Sivley was born about 1767, in Shenandoah Valley, Dunmore, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph R Zieffle Sivley, was 48 and her mother, Maria Catherine Guenther, was 38. She married Leonard Berry in 1793, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States. She died in Virginia, United States.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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.
Americanized form of German Sifferle (see Siverly ).
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