When Sarah Ford was born on 2 October 1739, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Ford, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Poole, was 22. She married Barnabas Packard Sr. on 27 November 1760, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 April 1813, in Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Dawes Cemetery, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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