When Zabin Williams was born in March 1767, in Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nehemiah Attwood Williams, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Gallup, was 39. He married Lucy Needham in 1792, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 28 February 1828, in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Hardin, Kentucky, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Historical Boundaries - 1780: Jefferson, Kentucky, United States; 1784: Nelson, Kentucky, United States; 1792: Hardin, Kentucky, United States
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: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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