When Mary Slason was born on 27 February 1755, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Slauson 3rd, was 19 and her mother, Anna Tryon, was 20. She married Peter Waterbury Loyalist about 1794. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Willsboro, Willsboro, Essex, New York, United States in 1800.
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Post office est. July 26, 1775
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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 Slawston (Leicestershire), with the loss of -t- characteristic of this area. The placename may derive from the Old Norse personal name Slagr (Middle English genitive Slages) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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