When Christopher Coldgrove was born on 13 February 1783, in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Oliver Colegrove, was 75 and his mother, Esther Tefft, was 39.
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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.
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.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
English (Oxfordshire): variant of Colgrove .
Probably an Americanized form of German Kohlgrube, a habitational name from any of twelve places so named, probably from Middle High German kol ‘coal’ + gruobe ‘pit’, or an altered form of Kohlgraf, an occupational name for an overseer of the coal trade.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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