When Mary Durst was born in 1799, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Zachariah Andrew Durst, was 49 and her mother, Elizabeth Borres, was 41. She married James Sailor in 1824, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fermanagh Township, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States in 1820.
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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.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
German:
(also Dürst): nickname from Middle High German turst ‘boldness’. Compare Duerst .
from Middle High German durst ‘thirst’, applied as nickname, probably for a heavy drinker; or a habitational name from a farmstead in Tyrol named with the same word, probably indicating a dry location.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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