When William Hutton was born on 17 March 1762, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Hutton, was 38 and his mother, Mary Wright, was 30. He died on 31 August 1781, at the age of 19.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
"""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."""""""
Scottish (Fife) and English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from one or other of the many places called Hutton, most of which derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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