When Asa Deming was born on 4 December 1748, in Newington, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Solomon Deming, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Graves, was 22. He died in 1793, at the age of 45.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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: variant of Deeming, a nickname for a judge from Middle English deming ‘judgement, adjudication; verdict; the act of conducting a trial’ (Old English dēmung ‘judgement, act of judging’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a judge or for an arbiter of minor disputes. Compare Deem , Deamer and Doman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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