Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Crane was born on 7 June 1751, in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Benjamin Crane Jr., was 23 and her mother, Patience Vose, was 18. She married Elijah Keyes about 4 November 1772, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 28 March 1802, at the age of 50.
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- Grace Crane, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Grace Crane, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Grace in entry for Bathsheba Keyes, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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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."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English cran, cron. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.
Manx: see Craine .
Dutch: variant of Krane ‘crane’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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