When Rebecca Pierce was born on 13 November 1791, in New York, United States, her father, Simeon Pearce, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Simmons, was 24. She married Pearis Raymond about 1820, in Bristol, Addison, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 31 July 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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