When Levi Goodridge was born on 15 February 1750, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Goodridge Sr, was 28 and his mother, Mary Redington, was 25. He married Mary Hale on 23 November 1773, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 16 May 1827, in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 77.
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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."""
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: variant of Goodrich .
Americanized form of German Güttrich (see Goodrich ).
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