When Joshua Word was born on 8 February 1775, in North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Charles Word Jr, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Sarah Adams, was 21. He had at least 6 sons and 2 daughters with Amelia H Hooper. He lived in Franklin, Heard, Georgia, United States in 1830. He died in 1853, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 78.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Historical Boundaries 1784: Franklin, Georgia, United States
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.
Perhaps an Americanized form of Dutch Van der Woord, a habitational name from any of the places called Woord or Woerd.
English: variant of Worth .
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