When Benjamin Cohee Sr. was born in 1744, in Kent, Delaware, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin John Cohee, was 30 and his mother, Mary, was 20. He had at least 6 sons and 3 daughters with Rachel Dill. He lived in Murderkill Hundred, Kent, Delaware, United States in 1800. He died on 22 October 1821, in Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, United States.
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From 1754-1763, the French and Indian War took place. The fighting that took place in the area of Delaware was in the upper Delaware River Valley. The Delaware Indians claimed independence from the Iroquois who allied with Britain. In 1755, Delaware attacked the Moravian settlement and Brodhead residence.
In 1764, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the western boundary of Delaware. This became part of the Mason-Dixon Line.
When the American Revolution began in 1775, the people of Delaware were not sure they wanted to split from England. When it came time to vote for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, even the delegates were split with two delegates in favor of independence and one against. The night before the vote, Caesar Rodney, who was for independence, was in the city of Dover. When he learned that the vote was taking place, he rode 70 miles at night through a thunderstorm to Philadelphia in order to vote so that Delaware would join the other colonies in declaring independence.
Irish: Munster variant of Coffey .
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