When Abigail Platt was born on 10 August 1760, in North Castle, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benoni Platt, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Ingersoll, was 19. She married Benjamin Tripp in North Castle, Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in North Castle, Westchester, New York, United States in 1850. She died on 1 April 1856, in Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Old Quaker Burial Ground, Armonk, North Castle, Westchester, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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: Middle English plat, platte ‘flat surface’ (Anglo-Norman French plat, plast), often with the senses ‘footbridge’ or ‘plot of land’. The name may be topographic, for one who lived near such a feature, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Platt in Manchester or Platt Bridge in Wigan (both Lancashire).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’.
German: variant of Platte 3.
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