When Benjamin Morton was born on 14 August 1783, in Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, his father, Restore Morton, was 30 and his mother, Rachel Asay, was 25. He married Susanna Roberts on 30 May 1807, in Burlington, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 20 November 1860, in Plumsted Township, Ocean, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pemberton, Burlington, New Jersey, United States.
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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.
Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two "houses" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested).
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
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