Brief Life History of Comfort
When Comfort Pixley was born on 9 October 1787, in Orange, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Alexander Pixley, was 34 and her mother, Agnes Anna Drake, was 23. She married David Bullock. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Talbotton, Talbot, Georgia, United States in 1860. She died in 1832, at the age of 45.
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- Comfort Bullock in household of Robt M Bryant, "United States Census, 1860"
- Comfort Pigsley, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Comfort Pigsley, "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
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.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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.
Name Meaning
English (London and Lincolnshire): habitational name, probably from a place so called in Herefordshire, named in Old English with the personal name Peoht + lēah ‘woodland’, ‘clearing in a wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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