When Sarah Clee was born in 1763, in Worcestershire, England, her father, James Clee, was 34 and her mother, Maria Skinner, was 29. She married William King on 16 August 1788, in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Holy Cross Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in 1788 and Bredon, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
English (West Midlands and south Wales): habitational name from any of several places called Clee, particularly the Clee Hills in Shropshire or possibly Clee in Lincolnshire. The hills are probably named with Old English cleo ‘rounded, ball-shaped’. In early Suffolk, this was a topographic name for atte cley ‘at the clay’, but this does not seem to have survived.
Americanized form of German Klee .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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