When John Vaughan was born in 1708, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Daniel Vaughan, was 35 and his mother, Abigail Moon, was 20. He married Mary Wilson on 4 February 1739, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
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.
Welsh: from fychan, a lenited form of bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’. This was often used to distinguish the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, typically the son of a father with the same name.
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