Brief Life History of David
When David Whittier was born on 14 April 1792, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Thomas N Whittier, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Eastman, was 30. He died in August 1833, at the age of 41.
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian tēwian ‘to taw’.
History: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), poet and active opponent of slavery, was descended from Thomas Whittier, who came to MA from England in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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