When Hannah Woodward was born on 1 February 1767, in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Eleazer Woodward, was 29 and her mother, Hannah Putnam, was 23. She died on 15 July 1788, in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
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