When Mary Robinson was born on 14 March 1767, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Maj. William Robinson, was 23 and her mother, Margaret Jane See, was 24. She married John Wamsley Jr. on 27 June 1784, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 5 January 1832, in Franklin, Franklin Township, Coshocton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Dove Cemetery, Jackson Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
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