When John Burt Stearns was born on 7 September 1764, in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Stearns Sr., was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Burt, was 26. He married Ruth Eastman on 26 August 1789, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died about 1848, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, 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 Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
English: variant of Stearn , with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Stern ).
History: In 1646 Charles Stearns was admitted as a freeman of Watertown, MA.
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