When Hannah Day Bonney was born on 28 January 1784, in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Benjamin Bonney, was 44 and her mother, Hannah Day, was 37. She married Isaac Noble Dayton on 18 January 1809, in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 19 August 1829, in Henrietta, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Brown Cemetery, Henrietta, Monroe, New York, 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.
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.
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
English (Lancashire): nickname for a handsome person, especially a large or well-built one, from northern dialect bonnie ‘fine, beautiful’ (still in common use in northern England and Scotland).
English: variant of Bunney .
German: variant of Boney . This surname is very rare in Germany.
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