When Abigail Wellman was born on 26 April 1719, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Stephen Wellman, was 37 and her mother, Abigail Baston, was 35. She married Thomas Cooper on 16 July 1743, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died after 1772.
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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: topographic name from Middle English wel(le) ‘spring, well, stream’ + man ‘man’, for someone who lived by such a place.
English: variant of Willman .
Americanized form of German Wellmann .
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