When James Painter was born on 20 December 1742, in Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Painter III, was 23 and his mother, Esther Gilpin, was 24. He married Jane Carter on 8 May 1771, in East Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Birmingham, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1771. He died on 10 June 1822, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Chester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
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.
English: from Middle English peintour, painter, peintir, penter, pointour (Old French peintour, paintour) ‘painter of images (on walls, screens, shields, etc.), colorist (of statues, figurines, chests, etc.), artist’. In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at Saint Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in England.
Americanized form of German Bender . Compare Bainter .
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Pajntar or Panjtar, topographic names from the field name Pajnta or Na Pajnti, which is derived from Middle High German biunt(e) ‘fenced agricultural land’ (compare German Paintner ), or perhaps from Bavarian Middle High German pant ‘band’ (compare Panter 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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