Brief Life History of Patty "Martha"
When Patty "Martha" Grout was born on 25 September 1754, in Northfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Major Hilkiah Grout, was 26 and her mother, Submit Hawkes, was 25. She married Captain John Marsh about 1785, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 22 October 1813, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Grout Cemetery, Perkinsville, Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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- Martha Grout, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Martha Grout Marsh, "Find A Grave Index"
- Martha Grout, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
Name Meaning
English (southeastern): perhaps a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in coarse meal from Middle English grout (Old English grūt) ‘crushed or peeled grain used for making malt, infusion of malt, wort, a kind of thick, dark ale’; compare the Old Norse personal name Grautr from grautr ‘porridge’.
English: alternatively, possibly a variant of Crout .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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