When Ebenezer Hooper was born in June 1740, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Hooper Sr., was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Tinkham, was 35. He married Relief Bartlett on 25 August 1761, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 26 July 1776, in his hometown, at the age of 36.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .
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