When Priscilla Pratt was born on 12 February 1735, in Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Pratt I, was 40 and her mother, Priscilla Thurber, was 38. She married Chase Robinson in 1755, in Meredith, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 27 November 1830, in Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Robinson Cemetery off Cilley Road, Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
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.
English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Middle English prat(te), pret ‘cunning, wily, astute’ (a derivative of Old English præt, pret ‘trickery, deception’, which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
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