When Priscilla Roberts was born on 26 May 1783, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, Robert Morgan Roberts, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Richford, was 38. She married James Chess in 1802, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 28 May 1866, in Ash Grove Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Old Chess Cemetery, Milford, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.
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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.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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