When Benjamin Wilder Sr. was born on 30 July 1764, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edward Wilder I, was 62 and his mother, Hannah Lewis, was 33. He married Lydia Lane on 24 March 1788, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 27 November 1842, in Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Old Centre Burial Ground, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wild 3.
English (South eastern England, especially Berkshire): probably a nickname from Old English wildēor ‘wild animal’.
History: Thomas Wilder is recorded as a freeman of Charlestown, MA, in 1640. He had numerous prominent descendents.
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