Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Short was born on 13 August 1764, in Guilford, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Aaron Short Sr, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Byrd, was 26. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Margaret Short. He lived in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1790. He died on 6 January 1834, in Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 69.
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- Moses Short, "United States Census, 1790"
- Rockingham County, North Carolina, Record of Deeds F, pp. 115-117, William Odham Short, Moses Short, Junr., Thomas Green and Sarah Green his wife deed to Hezekiah Rhodes
- Moses Short Bible record
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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