When Jonathan Somes was born on 6 May 1753, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Timothy Somes, was 31 and his mother, Abigil Andrews, was 31. He married Sally Parsons on 19 February 1786, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. He registered for military service in 1775. He died on 28 November 1824, in New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 71.
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Historical Boundaries: 1760: Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Cumberland, Maine, United States
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"""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, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Saham Toney (Norfolk), Earl and Monk Soham (Suffolk), or Soham (Cambridgeshire), and perhaps also Siam Hall near Newton (Suffolk), all of which share the same etymology (‘lake estate’, Old English sǣ ‘sea, lake’ + hām ‘village, homestead, estate’).
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