Brief Life History of Rebekah
When Rebekah Jones was born on 29 October 1712, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Jones, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Allis, was 25. She married Daniel Severance on 18 October 1733, in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 11 October 1793, in Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Longmeadow Cemetery, Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Rebeka Jones, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Rebecca Alvord, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Rebekah Burt, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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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."""
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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