When Ezekiel Keeney was born on 22 January 1784, in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, David Keeney II, was 31 and his mother, Jerusha Morley, was 21. He married Hannah Rogers on 18 November 1802, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1810 and Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1840. He died on 20 August 1841, in Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 57.
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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.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Irish: variant of Keaney .
Americanized form of Swiss German Kühni, Kühne (see Kuehn ), or German Kiene or Kiener .
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