When Hannah Presho was born on 5 May 1757, in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Presho, was 30 and her mother, Anna Sampson, was 21. She married Lieut Simeon Witherell on 1 April 1775, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 28 February 1839, in Grand Isle, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grand Isle Cemetery, Grand Isle, Grand Isle, 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."""""""
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English: locative name from Preesall (Lancs), which is recorded as Preshoued, Pressoure, and Preshou in about 1190. Considering these early forms, the place-name appears to have had three different types. In all cases the first element is probably the same as that in Preese (Lancs); see Preece (2). Forms like Preshoued suggest that the second element is Old Scandinavian hofuð ‘head, headland, promontory’; forms like Pressoure suggest that the second element is Old English ōfer ‘bank, shore’; forms like Preshou suggest that the second element is Old Scandinavian haugr ‘hill’.
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