When Lucy Bradstreet was born on 24 October 1724, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Simon Bradstreet, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Capen, was 33. She had at least 8 sons and 3 daughters with Captain, Robert Andrews. She died on 22 December 1815, in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 91, and was buried in Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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."""""""
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (Suffolk and Oxfordshire): topographic name from Middle English brad ‘broad’ + strat, strede ‘stree’ (Old English brād + strǣt), denoting someone who lived ‘(on the) broad street’. Compare Broadstreet .
History: The poet Anne Bradstreet (1612–72) was born Anne Dudley, probably in Northampton, England. She and her husband Simon Bradstreet came to MA with Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630. Simon (1603–97) came from an old Suffolk family. He served in various public offices and was governor of MA from 1679 to 1686 and again in 1686–92.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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