When Andrew James Lovejoy was born on 18 June 1772, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Lovejoy, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Perkins, was 28. He married Mary Taylor on 8 February 1801, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 16 April 1856, in Harlem, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Roscoe Cemetery, Roscoe, Winnebago, Illinois, 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: nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ (Old English lufian) + Middle English joie ‘joy’ (Old French joie), possibly ironic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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