Fort Pemberton Site
Fort Pemberton Site may refer to:
Pinnaroo Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane
The Pinnaroo Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium located at Graham Road, Bridgeman Downs, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
It is operated by the City of Brisbane.
Spring Grove Cemetery
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum( 733 acres) is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.
It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery and is recognized as a US National Historic Landmark.
Matthew Thornton (disambiguation)
Matthew Thornton was a signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
Matthew Thornton or Matt Thornton may also refer to:
Matthew Thornton
Matthew Thornton( 1714 – June 24, 1803) was an Irish- born signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
Cedar Memorial
Cedar Memorial is a cemetery and funeral home located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Pemberton, Virginia
Pemberton is an unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States.
Virginia State Route 45 passes by Pemberton, located about west of Goochland, the county seat.
It was named for the family that owned Clover Forest Plantation.
Nearby is Howard's Neck Plantation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Signer's House and Matthew Thornton Cemetery
The Signer's House and Matthew Thornton Cemetery are a pair of historic properties in Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
It consists of a house, once owned by Matthew Thornton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the adjacent cemetery in which he is buried.
The house is a two- story Georgian style double house, and is the only surviving house of the period in Merrimack.
It was owned by Thornton from 1780 to 1797, when he sold it to his son James.
The cemetery, located across the Daniel Webster Highway from the house, is also Merrimack's first cemetery, with the oldest gravestone marked 1742.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
It is now occupied by the Common Man restaurant.
According to surviving archival documents, the area was formerly known as Lutwyche's Ferry, and the building currently called the Signer's House was in fact built by Matthew Thornton's son Matthew Jr. on the previous location of a farm purchased by Matthew Thornton in 1780 from William Spooner.
The previous owner Spooner had obtained the farm and ferry titles somehow from the town, which had seized the property from Col. Edward Goldstone Lutwyche who had obtained ferry rights in 1767.
He was a colonel of the Fifth Provincial regiment and a Loyalist.
He refused an order to call out his regiment for the battles of Lexington and Concord, and on the night of April 20, 1775, left Merrimack for Boston within the British lines, leaving ownership to his mother Sarah, who remained.
Sarah appealed for and was granted restoration of the ferry rights on October 24, 1775, and held them until her death September 7, 1778, aged 77 years.
She is buried in Thornton cemetery.
On April 14, 1784, records show Thornton needed to petition for reinstatement of ferry rights which again had been confiscated by the town upon the occasion of Sarah's death.
He was successful and sold the rights in 1797 to his son Matthew Jr.
Fort Pemberton
Fort Pemberton was one of the larger confederate forts was constructed in the defense of Charleston, South Carolina during the American Civil War.
When Charleston was overwhelmed by Union forces in 1861, it became evident that control of the western regions of James Island and the Stono River was to be an important element in the defense of the city.
Confederate military authorities of the time believed that Union occupation of James Island would leave Charleston subject to attack from the southeast.
From this position the city would assuredly fall to the Union.
Although there were many gun batteries in place along the south and east side of James Island, Fort Pemberton was the only fortress in defense of this region.
Matthew Thornton House
The Matthew Thornton House is a historic house and National Historic Landmark at 2 Thornton Street in Derry, New Hampshire.
It was from 1740 to 1779 the home of Matthew Thornton, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
The main block of the house has a roughly square footprint and has the classic New England saltbox shape.
It is five bays wide and two deep, with a steeply- sloping leanto section to the north( rear).
In the 19th century Greek Revival trim details were added, including wide pilasters at the corners, and a portico sheltering the front entry.
The first- floor windows are topped by decorative cornices.
A single- story ell projects from one side of the rear, giving the house an L shape; this wing was built to house more modern kitchen facilities and servants' facilities.
The interior plan of the main house is a typical center- hall plan, with four rooms on each floor.
The house's chimneys were replaced in the 19th century with smaller ones.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Matthew Thornton was born in Ireland, probably in 1714, and came to North America with his parents in 1718.
He trained as a doctor, opening his practice in Derry in 1740.
He entered New Hampshire provincial politics in 1758, serving in the assembly until 1775, when a provisional assembly took over governance.
Thornton helped draft a new state constitution, and was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
He served there for one year, signing the Declaration of Independence even though he did not take office until November 1776.
In 1780 he moved to Merrimack, where he remained active in state politics.
He died in 1803, and is buried in the Signer's Cemetery, near his Merrimack home; the cemetery and Merrimack house are also listed on the National Register.

Question: Are both buildings, Signer'S House And Matthew Thornton Cemetery and Fort Pemberton, located in the same country?
Answer: yes