Brief Life History of Marguerite
When Marguerite Desmarets was born on 15 April 1759, in New Roads, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States, her father, François DesMarets, was 40 and her mother, Catherine Ducros, was 31.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Marguerite Desmarets - Government record: birth: about 1748; New Roads, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States
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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."""""""
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
form of Margaret , also used in the English-speaking world, where its use has been reinforced by the fact that the name was adopted in the 19th century for a garden flower, a large cultivated variety of daisy. Margaret was earlier used in English as a dialect word denoting the ox-eye daisy, and the French equivalent was borrowed into English just in time to catch the vogue for deriving girls' names from vocabulary words denoting flowers. See also Daisy .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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