When Martin Sterry Percy was born on 7 April 1898, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, his father, Fred S Percey, was 36 and his mother, Jennie May Hewett, was 31. He married Louise Maria Ciocca on 8 February 1920, in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in White Creek, Washington, New York, United States in 1905 and Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States for about 20 years. He died on 15 October 1938, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
English (of Norman origin):
nickname from Old French percehaie ‘pierce hedge’ (Old French percer ‘to pierce, penetrate’ + haie ‘hedge, fence’), perhaps with the sense of someone breaking into an enclosure. Percehaie is the name of one of the sons of the foxes Renart and Hermeline in the medieval French epic Roman de Renart, whose earliest known version is from the 1170s. The surname is older than that, but it may originate in a nickname for the fox as ‘enclosure piercer’, perhaps amounting to ‘chicken thief’.
habitational name from any of several places called Percy in Calvados, Eure, and Manche; William de Perci, the Domesday tenant-in-chief and under-tenant of Hugh, Earl of Chester, came from either Percy-en-Auge (Eure) or Percy (Manche).
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