Brief Life History of Sarah Sally
When Sarah Sally Phelps was born on 16 December 1762, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Phineas Phelps, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Green Phelps, was 29. She married Samuel Brooks on 16 February 1789, in Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 9 August 1845, in Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Sally Brooks, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Sally Phelps, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Sarah Phelps Brooks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""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."""""""
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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