When Mary Cornish was born on 12 June 1757, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lt Joseph C Cornish, was 28 and her mother, Elisabeth Morton, was 24. She married Deacon Artemus W Brigham on 23 December 1778. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1846, at the age of 89, and was buried in Clinton, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from the county of Cornwall, from Middle English Cornish, Cornysh formed on the analogy of English, which was usually Normanized as Corneys. Not surprisingly, the surname is common in adjacent Devon, but it is also established as far afield as Suffolk and London.
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