Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Cushman was born on 3 April 1737, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Cushman, was 38 and her mother, Mercy Washburn, was 34. She married Benjamin Robbins on 4 December 1755, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1737. She died in 1788, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 51, and was buried in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Abigail Cushman, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Abigail Cushman Robbins, "Find A Grave Index"
- Abigail Cushman in entry for Benjamin Robbins, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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Americanized form of Jewish Kushman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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