When Sarah Adams Chaffee was born on 3 July 1784, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel Chaffee, was 24 and her mother, Azubah Sanger, was 23. She married Wilkes Sharpe on 14 November 1825, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 13 May 1866, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 81.
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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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (of Norman origin): descriptive nickname from a derivative of Old French chauf ‘bald’ (from Latin calvus). Compare Cave .
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