When Asa Button was born on 13 May 1745, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Jedidiah Button, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Newberry, was 27. He married Abigail Culver on 29 May 1770, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 2 June 1826, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
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metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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