When Lydia Brewster was born on 18 March 1739, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Brewster, was 23 and her mother, Faith Ripley, was 16. She married William Ripley on 11 January 1757, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 3 March 1829, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Huggins Cemetery, Cornish Center, Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewestere, browestere ‘(female) brewer’ (from Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Brewer is the usual term in southern England, while Brewster is mainly midland, northern, and Scottish.
History: The Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster (1567–1644) was the son of the bailiff of the manor of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, home of one of the earliest Puritan congregations. He was a prominent leader in Plymouth Colony from the 1620s until his death.
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