When Jacob Morris Tilman was born in 1770, in Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Tillman Sr., was 50 and his mother, Hannah Morris, was 26. He married Sarah Price Lewis on 2 September 1799, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States in 1820. He died in 1821, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 51.
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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.
Americanized form of German and Danish Tillmann .
English: variant of Tillman .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): possibly a variant of Tilles with the addition of Yiddish man ‘man’, in the sense of ‘husband of Tile’.
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