When Jesse Gause was born in 1784, in East Marlborough Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Gause, was 29 and his mother, Mary Beverly, was 23. He married Martha Johnson on 14 June 1815, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died in 1836, at the age of 52.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
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.
German:
of Old Prussian origin, but unexplained etymology.
alternatively, of Slavic origin, a cognate of Gaus ‘goose’ derived from a Slavic word such as Polabian gos or Lower Sorbian gus.
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