When William Marsh was born on 3 May 1797, in North Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, John Marsh, was 25 and his mother, Priscilla Pond, was 21.
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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.
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In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
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