Brief Life History of Charlotte
When Charlotte Churchill was born on 1 November 1771, in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jabez Churchill, was 48 and her mother, Alice Briggs, was 38. She married Ephraim Barrows on 28 April 1785, in New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 5 January 1859, in Norway, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Norway, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Charlotte Barrows, "United States Census, 1850"
- Charlotte Churchill, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Charlotte Barrows, "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910"
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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."""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset and Somerset): habitational name from any of various places called Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crūg ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’. Alternatively, a topographic name denoting someone who lived ‘(on the) church hill’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Finnish Kirkkomäki: ornamental or topographic name from kirkko ‘church’ + mäki ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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