When Jehiel Meigs was born on 11 June 1703, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Janna Meigs Jr, was 30 and his mother, Hannah W. Willard, was 29. He married Lucy Bartlett on 27 September 1736, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 25 March 1780, in Madison, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hammonasset Cemetery, Madison, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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The first meetinghouse in East Guilford was constructed in 1705
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."""""""
English: variant of Meggs .
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