When John H Williams was born on 26 July 1785, in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Williams, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Bracken, was 18. He married Eliza Jane Zane on 14 June 1810, in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Coshocton, Ohio, United States in 1840 and Lafayette Township, Coshocton, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 July 1866, in Canton Township, Benton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Shellsburg Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, 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.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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