Brief Life History of John
When John Dech was born on 16 February 1778, in Hecktown, Lower Nazareth Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Dech Sr., was 32 and his mother, Christina Best, was 26. He married Elisabeth Oberly on 6 April 1797, in Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 21 December 1858, in Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Bath, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Dech, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- John Dech, "Pennsylvania, Church Marriages, 1682-1976"
- John Dech, "Find A Grave Index"
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1780
Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
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.
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
Some characteristic forenames: German Ernst, Heinrich.
German (mainly Palatinate and Baden): from a Germanized short form of any of various Slavic personal names composed with the element teh ‘comfort, consolation’ (see Tech ). It was formerly also found among Danube Swabians in Hungary, in the region of Bácska, which now almost entirely belongs to Serbia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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