Brief Life History of Sally
When Sally Bixby was born on 6 December 1783, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Gideon Bixby, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Wood, was 26. She married Abraham True Tilton on 30 August 1814, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 February 1835, in Norridgewock, Somerset, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Southside Cemetery, Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States.
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- Sally Bixby Tilton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lucy in entry for George T Tilton and Lois H Lovejoy, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Sally Bixby, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English (Suffolk and Essex): habitational name, perhaps from Bittesby in Leicestershire. The village was depopulated in 1494 to make way for sheep pastures. The pronunciation of the surname as Bekysby (1459) and Bixby (1539) would have arisen when bearers of the name migrated away from Leicestershire. Alternatively, Bixby might be an altered form of Bigby or Bixley, a Suffolk name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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