Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Henshaw was born on 8 May 1761, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Henshaw, was 45 and his mother, Ruth Woolcott, was 34. He married Sarah Lamb on 22 May 1788, in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 7 June 1848, in his hometown, at the age of 87, and was buried in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Thomas Hencher, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Thomas Henshaw, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Thomas Henshaw, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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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."""""""
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from Henshaw in Prestbury (Cheshire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + sceaga ‘copse, small wood’.
habitational name from Henshaw (Northumberland), possibly from the Old Norse personal name Hethinn (genitive Hethinns) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. See Hensell , of which Henshaw is sometimes a variant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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