Brief Life History of Humphrey
When Humphrey Pickard was born on 28 February 1743, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Pickard Jr., was 24 and his mother, Jane Saunders, was 19. He married Anne Christie on 14 March 1774, in Sunbury, New Brunswick, British North America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 11 February 1825, in Keswick Ridge, Bright, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Keswick Ridge, Bright, York, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Humphrey, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Humphry Pickard, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
- Humphrey Pickard, "Find A Grave Index"
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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."""
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German: habitational name for someone from Picardy in northern France (see Picard 1).
English: in some cases, possibly also from the Old French personal name Picard, probably from an ancient Germanic name, composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point, pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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