When Hannah O'Killey was born on 5 April 1724, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John O'Killey, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Eldredge, was 25. She married Edmund Shearman II on 4 March 1744, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 23 January 1789, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""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."""""""
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceallaigh ‘descendant of Ceallach’ (see Kelly ).
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