When Elisabeth Wiant was born on 14 July 1783, in New Goshenhoppen Church, Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jost Wiand, was 35 and her mother, Anna Barbara Roeder, was 31. She married Georg Jacob Wenner on 10 January 1808, in New Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1810 and Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 6 July 1870, at the age of 86.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1786: Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Americanized form of German Wiegandt , Wiegand or their very rare variant Wygandt. Compare Wion .
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