When Captain Nathaniel Ripley was born on 4 March 1742, in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nehemiah Ripley, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Atwood, was 32. He married Elizabeth Bartlett on 13 April 1766, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 23 October 1821, at the age of 79, and was buried in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 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.
English: habitational name from Ripley (Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire). The Hampshire and Surrey placenames derive from Old English ripel, rippel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename probably derives from the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English ripel, rippel or the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah.
History: William Ripley (died 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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