When Nathaniel Marsh was born on 2 September 1784, in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ephraim Marsh, was 31 and his mother, Esther Smith, was 32. He married Rebecca Heller about 1808, in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Chariton, Missouri, United States in 1830. He died on 23 January 1864, in Caldwell, Missouri, United States, at the age of 79.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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