When Margaret Ellen Newlove was born in 1758, in England, United Kingdom, her father, Christopher Newlove, was 51 and her mother, Jane Hornsey, was 32. She married Christopher Laybourn on 20 January 1777, in Nafferton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 12 August 1825, in Harmony, Clark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Harmony, Clark, Ohio, United States.
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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."""
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (East Yorkshire): perhaps from Middle English newe ‘new’ + luve, love ‘love’, though no medieval evidence of the name has yet been found.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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