When Roxa Morton was born on 26 July 1773, in Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Daniel Morton, was 52 and her mother, Eleanor Waite, was 43. She married Isaac Smith on 26 March 1792, in Whately, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1815, in Smith Mills, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Smith Mills Cemetery, Hanover, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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 and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
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