Brief Life History of Eli
When Eli Messinger was born on 15 November 1774, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Sweetser Messenger, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 36. He married Mary Haven on 10 May 1797, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Eli Messinger, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eli Mesinger, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Eli Messinger, "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
English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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