Brief Life History of Beulah Harriet
When Beulah Harriet Rice was born on 23 November 1716, in Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Rice, was 47 and her mother, Sarah Stone, was 41. She married Moses Leonard in 1734, in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 4 December 1780, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Beulah Rice, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Anderson Levorsen, "Minnesota, Death Records and Certificates, 1900-1955"
- Bulah Lenard in entry for Jonas Lenard, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1762
Oldest grave seen in memorial list.
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."""""""
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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