When Henry Tibbetts was born on 15 May 1761, in Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Henry Tibbitts Jr., was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Fry, was 21. He had at least 5 sons and 5 daughters with Lucy Wightman. He died on 28 February 1854, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 92.
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The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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 (Staffordshire): variant of Tebbutt , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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