When Hannah Eunice Woodcock was born on 29 April 1751, in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin M. Woodcock Sr., was 43 and her mother, Margaret White, was 36. She married Cpt. Nathaniel Robinson on 17 December 1774, in Attleboro, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1845, in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Old Pawlet Cemetery, Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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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.
English:
from Middle English wodecok ‘woodcock’ (Old English wuducocc, a compound of Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock, bird’), a type of bird that is notoriously easy to catch. Therefore, the name might have been either for a person who caught or sold woodcock, or a nickname for a gullible person.
in some cases, because there can be confusion between -cock and -cot in surnames, and therefore the name may also be a variant of Woodcott, a habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cot ‘cottage, shelter’, such as Woodcott in Cheshire and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire, or from any residence at a cottage in or near a wood.
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