When Martha Patty Coon was born on 5 May 1784, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Lieutenant Elias Coon, was 44 and her mother, Phebe Nye, was 42. She died on 29 July 1878, in her hometown, at the age of 94, and was buried in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, 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.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
Irish (Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuana (see Cooney ).
Americanized form of German Kuhn .
Americanized form of Dutch Coen or Koen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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