When George Upton was born about 1757, in Piscataway Parish, Prince George's, Maryland, United States, his father, Thomas Upton, was 28 and his mother, Martha Bax, was 29. He married Elizabeth Perkins on 6 January 1778, in Prince George's, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died about 1812, in Maryland, United States, at the age of 57.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Maryland is the 7th state.
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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