When James Allison was born on 24 May 1784, in Dunbarton, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Samuel Allison, was 35 and his mother, Molly Barr, was 34. He married Mary Holt on 20 July 1811, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. He died on 2 February 1867, in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Westlawn Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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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 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
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English female personal name Alice, Alis (see Allis ) + -son, meaning ‘Alice's son’.
English and Scottish: from the Middle English female personal name Alison, a common pet form of Alice, Alis. See Allis and compare Ellison .
Scottish: in some cases, a late variant of Allanson (see also Allinson ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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