Brief Life History of Margaret Elizabeth
When Margaret Elizabeth Jones was born on 1 January 1759, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Josiah Jones, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Place, was 30. She married Jonathan Sweet about 1777, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1789, in Berlin, Rensselaer, New York, United States, at the age of 30.
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- Margaret Jones, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Margaret Jones, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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