When Elizabeth Cockroft was born in February 1763, in Allerton, Yorkshire, England, her father, John Cockcroft, was 35 and her mother, Mary Thompson, was 35. She married Thomas Dewhurst on 10 September 1782, in Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Cockcroft .
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