Barbara Grounds was born about 1784, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States as the daughter of ?. She married Benjamin Hildebrand on 29 January 1805, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died before 1833.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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 1812: Cape Girardeau District became Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
English (Cheshire and Lancashire): nickname or topographic name from Middle English ground, grund ‘ground, land; basis, foundation; bottom; background; battleground’, with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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