When Sarah Dana was born on 25 August 1759, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathaniel Dana, was 42 and her mother, Abigail Gay Dean, was 38. She married Thomas Holbrook on 18 January 1781, in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 4 November 1831, in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 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."""""""
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Probably an altered form of English Dawney or Dawnay (see Dawn ), cognates of French Daunay (see Donais ).
Czech and Slovak (Daňa); Polish and Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Daniel (Hungarian Dániel), or perhaps from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names formed with the element dan ‘given’, for example Czech Danomír and Bohdan, Polish Bogdan .
Albanian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from danë (definite form dana) ‘pincers’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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