Brief Life History of Cynthia
When Cynthia Weeks was born on 10 June 1785, in Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ammiel Weeks, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Johnson, was 27. She married Joseph Ashley on 10 June 1806, in Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 7 April 1871, in Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Long Plain Cemetery, Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Cynthia Ashley in household of Marvin Ashley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cynthia <Weeks>, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Cynthia Weeks, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
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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.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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