When Tabitha Norwood was born about 1770, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Wilkins Norwood, was 73 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Smith, was 46. She married Uriah Smith in 1786, in Halifax, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1829, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 60.
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Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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 one or more of the many places called Northwood or Norwood, such as Northwood in Essex, Middlesex, Isle of Wight, Norwood in Middlesex and Surrey, or Northwood Farm in Okehampton and Northwood Farm in Morchard Bishop, both in Devon. The placenames mean ‘north or northern wood’, from Old English north ‘north, northern’ + wudu ‘wood’ or Middle English north + wode. Compare Norrod .
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