When Wessel Klaarwater was born on 18 March 1711, in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Teunis Jacobsen Klaarwater, was 49 and his mother, Marytjen Deyo, was 43.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
"""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."""""""
Dutch and German: from a pet form of the personal name Werner .
German: habitational name from Wessel in Saxony.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Vesel , and also an Americanized form of a homonymous Slovak surname, which probably originates from German Wessel (see above), and of Czech and Slovak Veselý (see Vesely ). Compare Wessell and Vessel .
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