Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Parr was born about 1723, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, John Edmund Parr, was 44 and her mother, Mary Thomas, was 30.
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- Matthew Parr in the Maryland, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777
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1748
Historical Boundaries 1748: Frederick, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Frederick, Maryland, United States
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."""""""
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Parr in Lancashire, or from residence at an enclosure (Middle English parr, Old English pearr).
German: from Middle Low German parre ‘parish, district, minister's house’; a metonymic occupational name for a parson or for someone who worked in a parsonage or manse. Compare Pfarr .
English: variant of Pear with the common late Middle English and early modern English change of -er- to -ar-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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