When Elizabeth Wilcox was born in 1777, in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Hopson Willcox, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Holoway, was 33.
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During 1780 to 1781, over 12,000 French troops occupy Newport, Rhode Island.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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.
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
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