When John Burland was born on 5 March 1769, in Stogursey, Somerset, England, his father, James Buscomb Burland, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Venn, was 29. He died in July 1858, in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
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English: topographic name from either Middle English burlond ‘peasant land’ (Old English gebūrland) or Middle English burgh + lond ‘land belonging to a town or borough’ (Old English burg + land). The surname could also be a habitational name from any of the places in Cheshire and the East Yorkshire named Burland, or Bowerland in Devon, Surrey, and Kent. The Yorkshire name is derived from Old English bȳre ‘byre, cow shed’ + land, the rest from Old English (ge)būr ‘peasant’ + land ‘land’.
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