Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Brinton was born in 1803, in Newberry Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Brinton, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Broom, was 25. She died on 27 August 1867, in Coatesville, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64.
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name perhaps from a lost or unidentified place, although possibly brought to Scotland from one or more of the English Brintons under 2 below.
English: habitational name from Brinton in Norfolk, named in Old English as Brȳningtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) Brȳni’ (a personal name based on Old English bryne ‘fire, flame’), or from any of various other places with names of the same origin, such as Brineton in Staffordshire, Great Brington in Essex, Brimpton in Berkshire, Brimington in Derbyshire, Brenton in Devon, Brington in Cambridgeshire or (Great and Little) Brington in Northamptonshire.
History: William Brinton (1635–99) came from Staffordshire, England, to West Chester, PA, in 1684–85.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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