When Sarah Stites was born in 1785, in Somerset, New Jersey, United States, her father, Isaac Stites, was 31 and her mother, Anna Butler, was 33. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with John Jennings. She died on 5 March 1855, in Warren Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 70.
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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.
"Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two ""houses"" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested)."
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Americanized form of German Steitz or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
English: unexplained. This surname is no longer found in Britain.
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