George Kyger was born in 1767, in Hampshire, West Virginia, United States. He had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Ruth Nixon. He died on 21 January 1825, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, 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 Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Possibly an altered form of German (Alemannic) Keiger, a nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German kegen ‘to shuffle’.
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