When Judith Twiss was born on 28 January 1784, in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Peter Twiss IV, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Twiss, was 30. She died on 25 December 1806, in her hometown, at the age of 22, and was buried in Peabody, Essex, Massachusetts, 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.
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English (mainly Lancashire):
habitational name from Twiss in Lancashire, named from Old English (ge)twis ‘forking’, used as a noun to mean ‘fork in a river’.
variant of Twist .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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