Isaac Wentworth was born in 1737, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States as the son of Ezekiel Wentworth Lord and Dorothy Wentworth. He died on 18 February 1828, at the age of 91.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th 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 Wentworth in Yorkshire. The placename probably derives from the Old English personal name Wintra + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
habitational name from Wentworth in Cambridgeshire, which has the same etymology as the placename in 1 above.
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