When Olive Freeman was born on 17 October 1780, her father, Frederick Freeman, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Thompson, was 21. She married Rodney Hanks in January 1803, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 January 1871, at the age of 90, and was buried in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
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