When Elizabeth Upton was born on 14 February 1762, in Piscataway Parish, Prince George's, Maryland, United States, her father, Thomas Upton, was 31 and her mother, Martha Bax, was 33. She married Henry Lanham on 5 April 1783, in Prince George's, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1850, in District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 89.
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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: habitational name from any of the many places in England called Upton, most of which are named with Old English upp ‘upper’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some have different origins, such as one in Essex, originally named with the phrase upp in tūne ‘up in the settlement’, i.e. the higher part of the settlement, and Upton Lovell (Wiltshire), which derives from the Old English personal name Ubba + Old English tūn. This name was brought to Ireland (Antrim) in 1598 by Henry Upton, from Upton in Devon.
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