When Jerusha Chauncey was born on 7 September 1714, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac Chauncey, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Blackleach, was 33. She married Hobart Estabrook on 26 June 1747, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1714. She died on 14 June 1776, in Connecticut, British Colonial America, at the age of 61, and was buried in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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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 (of Norman origin): variant of Chancey .
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