When Giles Hotchkiss was born about 1757, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Asa Hotchkiss, was 27 and his mother, Mary Andrews, was 21. He married Esther Benham before 1780, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He died in 1798, in Prospect, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Prospect Cemetery, Oxford, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Oldest memorials - Benoni Hotchkiss 1762-1762 and Anna Brockett 1716-1762
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 (Shropshire): variant of Hodgkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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