When Mary Majors was born on 8 September 1784, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Rev. Robert Howell Majors Sr, was 23 and her mother, Huldah Ladd, was 22. She married Joel H Goode about 1800, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She died before 1840, in Madison, Alabama, 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.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Historical Boundaries: 1808: Madison, Mississippi Territory, United States 1817: Madison, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Madison, Alabama, United States
English: variant of Major , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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