Brief Life History of Mehitabel
When Mehitabel Owen was born on 1 September 1714, in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Benjamin Owen, was 22 and her mother, Mehitable Savil, was 11711. She married Thomas Bolter on 28 August 1734, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter.
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- Mehitabel Owen, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Mehetabel in entry for Ebenezer Bolter, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Mehetabel in entry for Benjamin Bolter, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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."""
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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