When Alpheus Bascom was born on 10 April 1770, in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Bascom Jr, was 32 and his mother, Freedom Clark, was 31. He married Hannah Hauk about 1791, in Hancock, Hancock, Delaware, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1770. He died in 1833, in Brown, Ohio, United States, at the age of 63.
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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 Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
English (Cornwall): habitational name from either of two places called Boscombe (in Dorset and Wiltshire), both named with Old English bors ‘spiky plant’ + cumb ‘valley’. This surname, which is rare in Britain, is also found in Guyana and in the West Indies. Compare Bascomb and Bascombe .
Possibly an altered form of French Bascon: ethnic name from Old French Bascon, denoting someone from the Basque Country.
History: The surname Bascom was first brought to North America in 1635 by Thomas Bascom (1602–82) from England, who settled in Northampton, MA. He is the ancestor of the great majority of the Bascoms in the US and is believed to be of Huguenot stock. He is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America, while the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors lists his great-grandfather, Robert Bascom (or Bascome or Bascomb or Bascombe), who reportedly fled with his son Jean from France to England c. 1537. It were two of Thomas' nephews who reportedly brought the surname Bascom or its variants to West Indies. However, proof of a French Huguenot origin for the name is difficult to substantiate.
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