When John Wilkinson Dawes was born on 27 October 1783, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Adrian Dawes, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Coate, was 28. He married Susan Crance in 1803, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Pymatuning Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 7 March 1864, in Leon, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Burr Oak Cemetery, Pine River, Waushara, Wisconsin, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1800: Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Daw , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German (Däwes): either a patronymic from an ancient Germanic personal name Davo, or a variant of Tewes . The surname Däwes is rare in Germany.
History: William Dawes (1745–99) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and rode with Paul Revere to warn colonists of the British invasion in 1775. He is buried in Boston's King's Chapel Burying Ground.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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