Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Merrill was born on 6 November 1799, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Merrill, was 37 and her mother, Rebecca Howe, was 33. She married John Russ on 7 November 1816, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 13 March 1831, in her hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in Lawrence Street Cemetery, Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Merrell - birth: 6 November 1799; Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
- Hannah Merrill, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Unknown, "California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"
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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.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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