When Rachel Granger was born on 10 December 1777, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Granger, was 37 and her mother, Lucy Campbell, was 35. She married Elijah Dewey in April 1797, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Johnston, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died in 1837, in Richmond Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Richmond Center, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).
French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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