When Mary Polly Aiken was born on 14 August 1756, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Deacon Edward Aiken, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Woodburn, was 26. She married David Cochran on 26 December 1775, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 September 1823, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Londonderry, Windham, Vermont, 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."""""""
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Scottish Aitken .
History: Aiken is the name of a NH family that was prominent in the 18th century; also of a Charleston family descended from William Aiken, who emigrated from Antrim in Ireland to Charleston c. 1800.
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