When Martha Greenleaf was born on 18 March 1714, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Daniel Greenleaf, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Moody, was 24. She married Isaac Johnson on 10 May 1733, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 30 May 1788, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex, 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."""""""
English (Essex and Middlesex): from Middle English grene ‘green’ + lef ‘leaf’, presumably applied as a nickname, the significance of which is now lost.
Jewish (American): translation into English of the Ashkenazic artificial surname Grünblatt, a compound of German grün + Blatt ‘leaf’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Canadian Vertefeuille .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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