When Theodore B. Norton was born on 27 May 1763, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, James Norton Jr., was 39 and his mother, Mary Barnes, was 41. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Rachel Keeler. He lived in Canaan, Columbia, New York, United States in 1800 and DeRuyter, DeRuyter, Madison, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 9 November 1851, in DeRuyter, Madison, New York, United States, at the age of 88.
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Established in 1772
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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: 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.
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