When John J Hinkson Jr was born in 1764, in Atlantic Ocean, his father, John H Hinkson Sr, was 42 and his mother, Jane Morrow, was 41. He married Abigail Engle on 29 April 1784, in Chester Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. In 1770, at the age of 6, his occupation is listed as operated a saw mill in Nether Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 17 February 1819, in Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55.
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The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
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.
English: habitational name from Hingston in Bigbury or Hingston Down in Moretonhampstead (both Devon). Hinxton (Cambridgeshire) is a possible alternative source for the surname in eastern England. Hingston in Bigbury derives from Old English hind ‘hind, female deer’ + stān ‘stone’, while Hingston Down in Moretonhampstead comes from Old English hengest ‘horse, stallion’ + dūn ‘hill’. Hinxton (Cambridgeshire) derives either from Old English hengest or the Old English personal name Hengest + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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