When Joseph Stowell was born on 4 February 1727, in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Stowell IV, was 39 and his mother, Susanna Lambert, was 27. He married Elizabeth Stowell on 11 January 1750, in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 29 November 1782, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 55.
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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: habitational name from Stowell (Somerset), Stowell (Gloucestershire), East and West Stowell in Wilcot (Wiltshire), or Stawell (Somerset), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’. The surname was taken to the Isle of Man by 1511, from whence it migrated to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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