When Burwell Westbrook was born about 1748, in Southampton, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel Westbrook, was 28 and his mother, Mary Gray Foster, was 29. He had at least 6 sons and 1 daughter with Catherine Ramsey.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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English (southeastern): habitational name from any of various places called Westbrook, for example in Berkshire, Kent, and the Isle of Wight, from Old English west ‘west, western’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’.
Americanized form of Dutch Westbroek: habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.
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