When Susan Hungerford was born about 1744, in Charles, Maryland, United States, her father, Barton Hungerford, was 35 and her mother, Jane Warren, was 25. She died in December 1796, at the age of 53.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Maryland is the 7th state.
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.
English: habitational name from Hungerford (Berkshire), from Old English hungor ‘hunger’, here probably denoting unproductive land, + ford. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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