When Ephraim Simmons was born on 18 January 1769, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Simmons, was 32 and his mother, Abigail Bailey, was 32.
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On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
English (southeastern): variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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