Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Duncan was born on 1 January 1788, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Captain Simeon Duncan, was 32 and her mother, Mary Blair, was 27. She married Thomas Frink Webb on 27 August 1809, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 10 June 1824, in Essex, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Lunenburg Corner Cemetery, Lunenburg, Essex, Vermont, United States.
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- Sally Duncan, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Sally D. Webb, "BillionGraves Index"
- Sally Duncan in entry for Lucretia Gates Webb, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
1793
Oldest grave in memorial list.
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
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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