When Job Whitcomb was born on 24 January 1782, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Job Whitcomb, was 51 and his mother, Abigail Mary Whitney, was 37. He married Polly Gates on 27 May 1803, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1812, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitcombe or Witcombe. Whitcombe in Dorset and Witcombe in Gloucestershire are named with Old English wīd ‘wide’ + cumb ‘valley’; Whitcombe, Isle of Wight, may have the same etymology or alternatively the first element may be Old English hwīt ‘white’. Witcombe in Somerset is named with Old English wīthig ‘willow’ + cumb, and the placename Whitcombe in Devon is from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + cumb. The surname may also derive from a lost place in Sussex.
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