When Eunice Taylor was born on 12 March 1722, in Little Compton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Taylor, was 26 and her mother, Deborah Taylor, was 25. She married Thomas Brownell on 18 September 1742, in Little Compton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 8 November 1800, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Brownell Lot, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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