When Mary Blackburn was born on 12 November 1769, in Cecil, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, John Blackburn, was 24 and her mother, Mary Woods, was 15. She married Solomon Eagon on 12 November 1788, in Cecil, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Beaver Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 25 October 1857, in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in White Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, 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."""
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. This surname is found mainly in northern England.
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