When Marmaduke Mason was born on 14 September 1732, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Mason Jr, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Barney, was 39. He married Hannah Anthony on 25 February 1751, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 28 June 1798, in Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 65.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
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.
English: occupational name from Middle English masoun ‘mason, stone worker, builder in stone’ (Old Central French maçon, masson). A Middle English form machun (derived from Old French machun) gives rise to Machin and its variants. See also Mayson . Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.
Italian (Veneto): variant of Masone .
Altered form of French Masson .
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