Brief Life History of George
When Lt George Pickens was born on 18 April 1767, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Pickens Sr., was 51 and his mother, Margaret Strowbridge, was 38. He married Mary "Polly" Pickens on 5 October 1793, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 2 April 1849, in Middleborough Center, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Lt. George Pickens, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924"
- 1849 - George Pickens, age 81, upon his Death, "Find A Grave Index"
- George Pickins, "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."""""""
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: variant of Picken .
Possibly also an altered form of French Picon .
History: General Andrew Pickens (1739–1817) of the American Revolution was a great grandson of Robert (Andrew) Pickens alias Robert (André) Picon, reportedly a Huguenot who in 1685 left France to avoid religious persecution and settled briefly in Scotland and finally in Northern Ireland. The name of this ancestor is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, where he is said to have been born in France to André Picon, while some other sources claim he was a Scotsman who, having married a French Huguenot woman, lived in France until 1685.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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