Brief Life History of James J
James J Wooten was born in 1772, in Wake, North Carolina, British Colonial America. He married Mary Smith about 1795, in United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1822, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, at the age of 50.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1777
Historical Boundaries 1777: Wilkes, Georgia, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English wid(u), wudu ‘wood’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, such as Wootton in Northamptonshire or Oxfordshire, Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Wotton in Surrey, and Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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