When Sarah Jeffries was born on 27 March 1795, in Tell Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Richard Jeffries, was 65 and her mother, Nancy Anna Davis, was 29. She married Benjamin Briggs in 1816, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Noble Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 September 1862, in Wabash, Wabash, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Matlock Cemetery, Wabash, Wabash, Indiana, 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.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English: variant of Jeffrey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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