When Sarah Peebles was born on 29 May 1719, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Robert III Pebbles, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Houston Gray, was 41. She married Alexander McColloch on 20 February 1755, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 10 December 1804, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in West Burial Ground, Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from either Peebles on the river Tweed in southeastern Scotland, or from lands so called near Saint Vigeans, Angus. Both placenames are cognate with Welsh pebyll ‘tent, pavilion’, to which the English plural -s has been added.
History: This name has been made famous in upstate NY by Peebles Island, where the Mohawk River empties into the Hudson. The island was acquired by marriage by a Scots Peebles family in the late 18th century.
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