When Benjamin Wilcox was born on 19 May 1783, in Halifax, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Nathan Wilcox, was 36 and his mother, Rebecca Moon, was 31. He married Elizabeth Otis on 11 April 1811, in Rutland, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died in August 1849, in Streetsboro Township, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Streetsboro Cemetery, Streetsboro Township, Portage, Ohio, 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 March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
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