When Silas Bent was born on 16 May 1768, in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Silas Bent, was 24 and his mother, Mary Carter, was 21. He married Martha Kerr in 1798, in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 20 November 1827, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
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: habitational name from any of numerous farms and other minor places called with Middle English bent ‘coarse grass’ (Old English beonet ‘bent grass, coarse grass’), with reference to a tract of land growing with it.
English: nickname from Middle English bent ‘bent, curved’ (of the back or legs) or ‘striped, ribboned’ (of clothing).
East Frisian and North German: from a Frisian-Low German short form of the personal name Bernhart (see Bernhard ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesBiography Silas Bent was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1768,[nb 1] one of twelve children, to Silas Bent (1744–1818) and Mary Carter (1747–1831). Bent was a descendant of John Bent (1596 …
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