When James Weed was born on 17 July 1753, in Desert Of Maine, Freeport, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Weed, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Thompson, was 20. He married Anah Williams on 16 July 1777, in Harpswell, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 7 June 1824, in Knox, Maine, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Knox, Waldo, Maine, 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."""""""
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: nickname for an irascible person, from Middle English wed(e) ‘mad, crazy’. The name is also possibly from the Middle English noun wede in one of its senses, ‘weed’ or ‘garment, habit’.
Americanized form of Dutch Weeda .
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