Brief Life History of Huldah
When Huldah Gurney was born on 1 November 1754, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lemuel Gurney, was 24 and her mother, Rebecca Derby, was 24. She married Isaiah Jenkins on 6 June 1771, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 17 December 1829, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rockland, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Huldah Gurney, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Huldah Gurney Jenkins, "Find A Grave Index"
- Huldah Gurney in entry for Lucy Reed, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""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."""""""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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