Brief Life History of Dorcas
When Dorcas Thurston was born on 22 January 1739, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph Thurston Jr., was 40 and her mother, Mary Lane, was 42. She married Thomas Robbins on 27 October 1756, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 28 April 1825, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Dorcas Thurston, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Dorcas Thusten, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Dorcas Roberts, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
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 (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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