Brief Life History of Thomas
When Doctor Thomas Anderson was born on 16 September 1741, in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Anderson, was 39 and his mother, Mary Anderson, was 35. He married Mary Danielson on 24 November 1766, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Brimfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1800. He died in 1806, at the age of 65.
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- Thomas Anderson, "United States Census, 1800"
- Births of all children of John and Mary Anderson in Brimfield, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1627-2001; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-31531-3140-49
- Thomas Anderson, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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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."""""""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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