When Polly Mears was born in 1793, in Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Joseph Mears, was 26 and her mother, Esther Benedict, was 25.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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.
The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
English: variant of Mear , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: from Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’. Compare Myers .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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