Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Hawley was born on 8 October 1723, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph Hawley, was 41 and his mother, Rebecca Stoddard, was 37. He married Mercy Lyman in 1752. He lived in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1723. He died on 10 March 1788, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Joseph Hanley, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Joseph Hawley, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Joseph Hawley, "Find A Grave Index"
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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."""""""
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Joseph Hawley
Joseph Hawley, statesman, b. In Northamptoin, Mass., 8 Oct., 1723; d. in Hampshire county, Mass., 10 Mar 1788. He was graduated at Yale in 1742, and studied theology, but abandoned it for law, and pra …
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