When Joshua Compton was born on 30 May 1778, in Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Compton II, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Lewis, was 41. He married Rebecca Hawkins in 1799. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 15 February 1802, in Union, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Cane Creek Quaker Church Cemetery, Santuc, Union, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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 any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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