When Martha Taylor was born on 21 December 1756, in Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Othniel Taylor, was 37 and her mother, Martha Arms, was 28. She married Lt Josiah Johnson in 1774, in Franklin, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 27 October 1825, in her hometown, at the age of 68, and was buried in Franklin, 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, 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.
Possible Related Namesdau of Othniel Taylor & Martha (Arms) Taylor m. Josiah Johnson 1774 History of Buckland by Kendrick w/genealogies by Kellogg Pg 502 & 642 TAYLOR, Martha, b. Dec. 21, 1756 at Charlemont; dau of Othni …
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