When Mehitable Norton was born on 17 November 1750, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Deacon Peter Norton, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Bassett, was 32. She married Henry Butler on 14 February 1771, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 February 1826, at the age of 75.
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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."""""""
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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