When Jonathan Keyes Jr was born on 21 January 1728, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonathan Keyes, was 25 and his mother, Patience Morse, was 22. He married Sarah Taylor on 23 January 1752, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 9 November 1786, in Rumford Corner, Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Rumford Corner, Rumford, Oxford, Maine, 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."""
English, Irish and Scottish: variant of Kay , of various origins, mostly, with excrescent -s.
English (of Norman origin): in some cases, possibly a variant of Guise, a habitational name from Guise in Aisne, Picardy.
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