When John Warren was born on 22 November 1757, in New Castle, Delaware, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Warren, was 28 and his mother, Lydia Sipple, was 26. He married Elizabeth Griffin on 10 May 1780, in Smyrna, Kent, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1803, in New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 46.
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In 1764, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the western boundary of Delaware. This became part of the Mason-Dixon Line.
When the American Revolution began in 1775, the people of Delaware were not sure they wanted to split from England. When it came time to vote for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, even the delegates were split with two delegates in favor of independence and one against. The night before the vote, Caesar Rodney, who was for independence, was in the city of Dover. When he learned that the vote was taking place, he rode 70 miles at night through a thunderstorm to Philadelphia in order to vote so that Delaware would join the other colonies in declaring independence.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
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