When Dr John Parkhurst Jr. was born on 30 December 1784, in Farmington, Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Parkhurst, was 24 and his mother, Sarah "Sally" Bullard, was 21. He married Laura Gleason on 8 September 1822, in Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 15 September 1840, in Springfield, Springfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Springfield, Springfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States
English: habitational name from any of various places called Parkhurst, such as Parkhurst in Buxted (Sussex), which is recorded as Perkehurst in 1439, and Parkhurst in Abinger (Surrey), which is recorded as Parkherst in 1464. The placenames derive from Middle English park ‘park, enclosure’ (Old French parc) or parrok ‘enclosure, paddock’ (Old English pearroc) + hirste ‘hillock, copse’ (Old English hyrst).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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