When Eleanor Wilcox was born on 5 May 1780, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Mark Wilcox, was 35 and her mother, Mary Flahaven, was 32. She married William Daniel Jenkins on 2 June 1801. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 19 June 1816, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 36.
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In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
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