When John Stuart was born on 4 April 1784, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Stewart, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Nelson, was 33. He married Elizabeth Hale on 21 November 1812, in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 13 February 1820, at the age of 35, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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Scottish (Aberdeenshire and Banffshire): variant of Stewart . This French form of the name, there being no W in the French language, was adopted by Mary, Queen of Scots, on her return to Scotland in 1561 and has since come to be more popular among royalists than the earlier spellings.
History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland (see note at Stewart ).
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