When Mary Beach was born in 1733, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Noah Beach, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Harriman, was 26. She married Nathaniel Ermon Squire on 24 April 1751, in Hanover, Hanover Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 12 April 1815, in Livingston Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Morris, New Jersey, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1739: Morris, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Morris, New Jersey, United States
"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
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