Catharine Gereth was born on 1 February 1779. She married Johann Valentin Boyer on 24 March 1811. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 20 June 1863, at the age of 84, and was buried in Alsace Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
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.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
German:
from the ancient Germanic personal name Harihard, composed of the elements hari, heri ‘army’ + hard ‘strong, hardy’.
habitational name from a place called Herreth near Bamberg, Bavaria.
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