When Jacob Parker Cummings was born on 4 April 1763, in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Stephen Richardson Cummings II, was 26 and his mother, Mary, was 24. He married Esther Gallop on 6 June 1784, in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Clarence, Erie, New York, United States in 1840. He died on 10 September 1842, in Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 79.
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On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
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.
Scottish and English (of Norman origin): variant of Cumming , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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