When Priscilla Tuxbury was born on 5 November 1741, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, David Tewksbury, was 40 and her mother, Ann Worthen, was 37. She married George Bartlett on 7 January 1762, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 7 October 1825, in New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brentwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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 (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Duxbury in Lancashire, recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Deowuc or Duc(c) (both of uncertain origin) + Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke ).
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