Brief Life History of Willard
When Willard Breck was born on 17 November 1787, in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jotham Breck, was 32 and his mother, Huldah Thayer, was 30.
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- Willard Breck, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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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.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
1789 · The United States Constitution
Originally comprising seven articles, the United States Constitution is the backbone of the law in the Nation. The first three articles talk about the separation of powers, dividing the government into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Articles Four, Five and Six describe the what each state governments have rights to do, how the states and the federal government should act in their relationship, and how the constitutional amendments are shared between all states. The Seventh Article explains and establishes the procedure used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic breac ‘speckled’.
Irish: variant of Breakey .
English: metathesized form of Berk, see Birks and compare Berks and Brick .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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