Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Root was born on 25 February 1725, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joshua Root Sr., was 42 and her mother, Margaret Gilbert, was 31. She married Ebeneazer Fowler on 24 April 1755, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 5 November 1787, at the age of 62, and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Cathrigne Root, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Catherine Root Fowler, "Find A Grave Index"
- Katharine Fowler in entry for Katharine Fowler, "Massachusetts, Church Records, 1630-1943"
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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: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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