Brief Life History of Mary Polly
When Mary Polly Lund was born on 25 May 1778, in New Hampshire, United States, her father, Ephraim Lund, was 32 and her mother, Alice Wheeler Lund, was 32. She married Enos S. Hardy on 10 November 1797, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 6 January 1849, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- 1850 United States Federal Census
- Mary Lund, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Polly Lund, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Anders, Lars, Nils, Thor, Iver, Nels, Obert, Berger, Einer, Knute, Morten.
Scandinavian, German, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, Old Norse lundr; the word was adopted into northern dialects of Middle English and also into Anglo-Norman French. There are a number of places in England named with this word, as for example Lund in Lancashire, East Yorkshire, and North Yorkshire, Lunt in Merseyside, and Lound in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Suffolk, and the surname may derive from any of these. As a Swedish surname it is probably most often ornamental.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Lund or Lunden in Schleswig-Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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