Brief Life History of George
When George Keech was born on 29 August 1799, in Tredyffrin Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Aaron Keech, was 25 and his mother, Rebecca Righter, was 19. He married Mary Ann Hunt on 10 September 1826, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Sherman Township, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 February 1877, in Centreville, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Centreville, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States.
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- George Keeck, "United States Census, 1860"
- George Titch?, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- George Keech, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
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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.
1805
The Territory of Michigan was organized as an incorporated territory of the United States on June 30, 1805, with Detroit as the territorial capital.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire):
nickname for an fat person, from Middle English cach, caiche, cage, kech, a word of unexplained origin but presumably the antecedent of modern English dialect keech (variant catch) ‘lump of congealed fat; fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump (in preparation for sending to the chandler or tallow maker to make wax)’.
variant of Kedge, a nickname either from Middle English kegge, kigge ‘cheerful, pleasant, agreeable, merry’, or from an unrecorded Middle English kegge ‘belly’, for a pot-bellied person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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