When PVT. Benjamin Pike was born on 28 September 1723, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Pike, was 26 and his mother, Lydia Drury, was 25. He married Elizabeth Hardy on 12 June 1745, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 20 October 1803, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, 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: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
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