When Jannetje Clauw was born in 1693, in Kinderhook, Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, United States, her father, Hendrick Fransz Clauw, was 28 and her mother, Cornelia Andriesse Schwerp, was 28.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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.
English: altered form of Cloud .
French: from an old vernacular form of the personal name Claude .
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with the variant Claude in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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