Brief Life History of Prince
When Prince Norton was born about 1728, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nicholas Norton, was 42 and his mother, Martha (Daggett) Norton, was 41. He married Love Norton on 11 January 1753, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 8 March 1806, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Prince Norton, "United States Census, 1800"
- Prince Norton, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Prince Norton, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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