Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Taft was born on 12 July 1783, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Aaron Taft, was 40 and her mother, Rhoda Rawson, was 33. She married Barnard Banyard Howard in 1804, in Vermont, United States. She died on 30 October 1860, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Townshend, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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- Mary T Stiles in household of Saml J Taft, "United States Census, 1860"
- Polly Taft, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mary F. Sliter, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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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.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Staffordshire and Derbyshire): variant of Toft .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial or metonymic occupational name from German Taft ‘taffeta’.
History: Robert Taft (born c. 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. — Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the US and chief justice of the US Supreme Court.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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