Brief Life History of Sally
When Sally Waterman was born on 8 June 1780, in Wellfleet, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Waterman, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Foster, was 32. She married Atkins Dyer on 26 June 1801, in Wellfleet, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. She died in 1842, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 62.
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- Sally Waterman, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Sally Waterman, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Sally Waterman, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1781 · The First Constitution
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.
1783 · A Free America
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.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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.
Name Meaning
English and Dutch: occupational name for a boatman or ferryman, or a water carrier (the English name was perhaps sometimes synonymous with Middle English waterlader or waterberer, denoting a man who carried fresh water from a spring or stream for drinking or domestic use), or a topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or stretch of water (see Water 2).
English: occupational name from the Middle English personal name Water or Walter + man, meaning ‘servant of Wa(l)ter’.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wassermann or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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