Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Peterson was born on 30 December 1740, in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Reuben Peterson, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Simmons, was 27. She married Timothy Williamson on 3 December 1767, in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 5 December 1824, in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Sarah Peterson, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Sarah Williamson en tant qu’entrée de Nathan Williamson, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Sarah in entry for Sally Williamson, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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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."""
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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