When Larkin Lacon Dorsey was born on 13 February 1747, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, his father, Francis Hughes Dorsey Sr, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Baker, was 41. He married Lucy about 1767, in Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States. He died in 1818, at the age of 71.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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 (East Yorkshire): of French origin, a habitational name, with French preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
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