When Joseph Linnell was born on 12 June 1707, in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Linnell, was 38 and his mother, Ruth Davis, was 33. He married Dorcas Smith on 26 November 1747, in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. He died on 18 January 1783, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75.
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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."""""""
English: possibly a habitational name from Lyne Hill in Penkridge, Staffordshire.
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