Brief Life History of Aaron Clark
When Aaron Clark Jacobs was born on 11 May 1783, in Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonathan Jacobs, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Clark, was 37. He married Mary Polly Allen about 1800, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 August 1855, in Argyle, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Argyle, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Aaron C Jacobs, "United States Census, 1850"
- Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
- Aaron C. Jacobs, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
Dutch, Flemish, German, English, and Jewish: patronymic from the personal name Jacob , ‘Jacob's (son)’, with genitival (or, as an English name, post-medieval excrescent) -s. This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). As a Jewish surname it has absorbed various other Jewish patronymics from the same personal name, as for example Jacobowitz , and in North America also cognates from other languages, for example Slovenian Jakopič (patronymic from an old variant of the personal name Jakob ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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