When Marcy Kirby was born on 16 October 1762, in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Wesson Kirby, was 31 and her mother, Hannah White, was 31. She married John Howland III on 9 May 1782, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1850, in Brown, Ohio, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Liberty Chapel Cemetery, Decatur, Brown, Ohio, 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."""""""
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesBurial unmarked. Marcy Kirby and John Howland were married 6 June 1782 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Marcy and John were born and later married in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachus …
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