When Persis Norton was born in 1785, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Simeon Norton, was 37 and her mother, Mary Adams, was 37. She married William Nelson on 17 May 1823, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 8 December 1856, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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