When Daniel Smalley was born about 1789, in Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, his father, Jonathan Smalley, was 30 and his mother, Rebecca Dwire, was 22. He married Catharine Elliott before 1810. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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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.
Trenton, New Jersey officially became the state capital in 1790. The first state governor would be William Livingston.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name chiefly from Smalley in Balderston near Blackburn (Lancashire), but occasionally from Smalley (Derbyshire) and perhaps also from Smalley in Stanley (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English smæl ‘narrow, thin’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In Scots pronunciation the surname developed to Smellie , Smillie , and Smiley .
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