When Mary Dickinson was born on 10 January 1742, in Salisbury Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Dickinson, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 28. She married John Cope Jr on 10 March 1760, in Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sadsbury MM, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in 1760. She died on 5 August 1805, in Perryopolis, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Providence Meeting House Cemetery, Perryopolis, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Historical Boundaries 1783: Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: variant of Dickenson , a patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dicun a pet form of Richard (see Dicken ) + son.
History: Jonathan Dickinson, the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), was born in Hatfield, MA, in 1688. Both his parents came from pioneer Connecticut Valley stock.
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