Brief Life History of Abner
When Abner Norcom was born about 1775, in Chowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Norcom, was 36 and his mother, Mary Miriam Standin, was 26. He died in 1807, in his hometown, at the age of 33.
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- Abner Norcom, "North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
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 (Devon): habitational name, probably from Morecombelake in Dorset (recorded as Mortecumbe in 1240). The second element of this is Old English cumb ‘short valley, combe’ (see Coombe ); the first is probably either an Old English personal name, Morta (see Mort ) or mort ‘young salmon or similar fish’. The surname is not from Morecambe in Lancashire, which is an 18th-century coinage, based on identification of Morecambe Bay with Morikambē ‘great gulf’ in the work of the classical Greek geographer Ptolemy.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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