When Martha Gurney was born on 24 July 1725, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathan Gurney, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Harden, was 18. She married Zachariah Shaw on 20 January 1745, in Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 9 August 1813, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88.
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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 (of Norman origin):
habitational name from Gournay-en-Brai in Seine-Maritime in France.
perhaps occasionally also a habitational name from Great Gornhay, in Tiverton (Devon); see Garnsey .
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