Brief Life History of Jacob Hurt
When Jacob Hurt Shorter was born about 1775, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, his father, Henry Russell Shorter, was 52 and his mother, Sarah Maiden, was 51. He married Delphia Bankston on 1 October 1799, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 12 January 1812, in his hometown, at the age of 38.
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- Jacob Shorter, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Jacob Shorter, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1777
Historical Boundaries 1777: Wilkes, Georgia, United States
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:
topographic name for someone who lived by a detached or cut-off piece of land known in Middle English as a sherte, shirte, or shurte (Old English scerte, scierte, scyrte). The addition of + -er to a topographic term to form an agent noun is typical of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, and may also have occurred in Berkshire and Wiltshire. The name is synonymous with atte Scherte and atte Schurte; see Short and Shortman .
in Staffordshire, apparently a shortened form of Shorters, itself a variant of Shorthouse, a nickname either for someone who wore short stockings or boots (Middle English short ‘short’ + hose ‘stocking, boot’), or for someone with a short neck (Middle English short + hals ‘neck’; see Shortell ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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