When Samuel Fessenden Sr was born on 17 March 1774, in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Fessenden, was 43 and his mother, Rebeckah Curtis, was 43. He married Azuba Houghton on 8 August 1791, in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1830, in Jamaica, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 56.
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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."""""""
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English (Kent): probably from a lost or unidentifiedplace in Kent, named with an unexplained first element + Old Englishdenu ‘valley’. The variant Fishenden is also found.
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