Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Thompson was born on 22 April 1761, in Colrain, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Calvin Thompson, was 41 and her mother, Janet Jeanette Mcclellan, was 31. She married David Smith on 16 January 1781, in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 27 September 1808, in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Colrain West Branch Cemetery, Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Martha Thompson, "Massachusetts Births 1761
- Martha Thompson, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Martha Thompson, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1785
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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