When Elizabeth Billings was born in 1740, in Sunderland, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Billings, was 45 and her mother, Editha Gunn, was 35. She married Captain Stephen Ashley on 10 November 1762, in Franklin, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 September 1826, in her hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in Long Plain Cemetery, Leverett, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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.
English (Midlands): variant of Billing , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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