Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Barrett Minot was born on 4 February 1768, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Captain George Minott, was 26 and her mother, Rebecca Barrett, was 26. She married William Heywood on 15 September 1793, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 30 September 1794, at the age of 26, and was buried in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Rebeckah Minot, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Rebeckah Minot Heywood, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rebecca Minot, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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."""""""
1783 · A Free America
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.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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