Brief Life History of Elisha
When Elisha Hurt was born in 1758, in Caroline, Virginia, United States, his father, Joel Hurt, was 53 and his mother, Mary Jane Mitchell, was 23. He married Priscilla Brinkley about 1783, in Halifax, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1829, in Warren, Georgia, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Elisha Hurt, "Georgia, Headright and Bounty Land Records, 1783-1909"
- Elisha Hurt, "Georgia, Headright and Bounty Land Records, 1783-1909"
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hart . In Middle English, Old English heorot ‘hart’ became hurt west of a line running roughly from Dorking to Birmingham, and this has occasionally survived, though often replaced by the standard hart from hert.
German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle, woven fence’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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