When Parley Rounds was born on 6 January 1783, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Levi Round, was 29 and his mother, Lydia Hines, was 22. He married Elizabeth Phillips on 21 August 1808, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 9 April 1867, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Smithville Cemetery, North Scituate, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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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.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Staffordshire): variant of Round , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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