When Joshua Ashbridge was born on 17 September 1746, in Goshen Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, George Ashbridge III, was 43 and his mother, Jane Hoopes, was 40. He married Mary Ann Davis on 4 November 1773. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in East Goshen MM, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1820. He registered for military service in 1781. He died on 4 September 1820, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
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: habitational name from a much altered form of the placename Askrigg in North Yorkshire, derived from Old Norse askr (Old English æsc) ‘ash tree’ + Old English hrycg ‘ridge’.
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