Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Blackman was born on 13 March 1702, in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Blackman, was 36 and her mother, Jemima Breck, was 29. She married Jonathan Keeney on 8 March 1724, in Dorchester, Dorchester, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died in Stoughton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Jemima Blackman, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jemima Blackman, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jemima Blackman, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"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."""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Blakman (Old English Blæcmann ‘black’ + ‘man’), which remained fairly common until the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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