When Josiah Wedgwood II was born on 3 April 1769, in Etruria, Staffordshire, England, his father, Josiah Wedgwood, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Wedgwood, was 34. He married Elizabeth Margaret Allen in 1792, in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 12 July 1843, in Maer, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Maer, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
English: habitational name from Wedgwood in Staffordshire. The placename probably means ‘the wedge-shaped wood’, from Old English wecg ‘wedge’ + wudu ‘wood’.
History: The famous English family of pottery makers of this name was founded by Josiah Wedgwood in 1759. They trace their descent from Stephen de Wedgewood, who was recorded in Brieryhurst (Staffordshire) in 1358.
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