Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Fales was born on 18 June 1717, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Fales, was 35 and his mother, Deborah, was 18. He married Elizabeth Lincoln on 4 May 1762, in Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in February 1780, in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jonathan Falls, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jonathan Fales, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Jonathan Fales, "Find A Grave Index"
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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."""
Name Meaning
Altered form of Scottish or Irish Fails .
Czech (rarely Fáles): from a pet form of the personal name Valentin .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Falež or its rare variant Faleš: nickname from archaic dialect falež ‘bag, sack’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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