Hepsibah Norton

Brief Life History of Hepsibah

When Hepsibah Norton was born on 19 December 1758, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Norton, was 25 and her mother, Hephzibah Swain, was 25. She married Eliphalet Johnson on 27 May 1782, in Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 9 March 1848, in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 89.

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Family Time Line

Eliphalet Johnson
1758–1834
Hepsibah Norton
1758–1848
Marriage: 27 May 1782
Thomas Johnson
1781–1803
John Johnson
1785–1863
Samuel Johnson
1786–
Joseph Johnson
1787–
Lucinda Johnson
1789–1883
Betsey Johnson
1791–1793
James Johnson
1793–1821
Olivia Johnson
1795–
Electa Johnson
1801–1887
Eliphalet Johnson Jr
1803–
Harriet Johnson
1806–1896

Sources (5)

  • Hepzibah Norton, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Hepsibah Johnson in entry for John Johnson, "Rhode Island Town Births Index, 1639-1932"
  • Hephribah Johnson in entry for John Johnson, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"

World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

New Hampshire is 9th state.

1783 · A Free America

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.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .

Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).

Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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