When Abigail Streeter was born on 25 June 1741, in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Streeter, was 37 and her mother, Miriam Day, was 31. She died on 23 January 1796, in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 54.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
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: topographic name from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt) + -er, used for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town, by a Roman road, or who came from a place so named, in particular Streat (Sussex). Compare Street .
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