When Theophilus Higgins was born on 6 May 1698, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Richard Higgins, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Hamblin, was 26. He married Joanna Young on 8 March 1724, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 12 December 1780, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Eastham, Barnstable, 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."""""""
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
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