Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Bent was born about 1752, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Micah Bent, was 37 and her mother, Grace Rice, was 40. She married Benjamin Rice on 31 January 1774, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 12 September 1831, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Patty Rice, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Martha Newnum, "Find A Grave Index"
- M. Bent in entry for Rebecca Bacon Stevans, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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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."""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous farms and other minor places called with Middle English bent ‘coarse grass’ (Old English beonet ‘bent grass, coarse grass’), with reference to a tract of land growing with it.
English: nickname from Middle English bent ‘bent, curved’ (of the back or legs) or ‘striped, ribboned’ (of clothing).
East Frisian and North German: from a Frisian-Low German short form of the personal name Bernhart (see Bernhard ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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