Brief Life History of Jerusha
When Jerusha Cleveland was born on 14 June 1783, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph Cleveland, was 68 and her mother, Mary Ripley, was 21. She married Benjamin Dunham on 15 February 1812, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 27 June 1854, in her hometown, at the age of 71, and was buried in Old Westside Cemetery, Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jerusha Dunham, "United States Census, 1850"
- Jerusha Bird, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jerusha Dunham, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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