When Lt. Benjamin Woodbury Sr. was born on 5 March 1788, in Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Ebenezer Woodbury Sr., was 39 and his mother, Elisabeth Kelley, was 31. He married Hannah Graham Smith on 1 August 1810, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died in December 1822, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
Originally comprising seven articles, the United States Constitution is the backbone of the law in the Nation. The first three articles talk about the separation of powers, dividing the government into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Articles Four, Five and Six describe the what each state governments have rights to do, how the states and the federal government should act in their relationship, and how the constitutional amendments are shared between all states. The Seventh Article explains and establishes the procedure used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one.
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.
English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon, named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burg ‘fortress’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
History: John Woodbury emigrated from Somerset, England, to Gloucester, MA, in 1623.
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