When Mary Fly was born on 5 April 1766, in Scarborough, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Everett Flye, was 24 and her mother, Jerusha Freeman, was 25. She married Thomas Fenderson on 20 December 1791, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1766. She died before 1839.
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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."""""""
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
English: variant of Flay, either a nickname from Middle English fle(gh), flei(gh), flie ‘flea’ (Old English flēah), or a nickname from Middle English fli(gh)e, flei(e), fleh(e) ‘fly, winged insect’ (Old English flēoge).
Danish: topographic name from an unattested word meaning ‘puddle, pond’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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