Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Brush was born on 8 October 1766, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Brush, was 33 and her mother, Deborah Ingersoll, was 29. She married Jonathan Platt II in 1782, in Tioga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 3 May 1835, in Tioga, New York, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Nichols, Nichols, Tioga, New York, United States.
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- Anna Brush Platt, "Find A Grave Index"
- The Platt lineage; a genealogical research and record : Platt, George Lewis, 1819-1900. [from old catalog] :
- Legacy NFS Source: Anna Brush - Published information: death:
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from Middle English brush ‘brush’ (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Americanized form of German Brusch or Brüsch ‘heather, broom, brushwood’ (see Bruesch ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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