When Samuel Waite was born on 14 April 1750, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Waite, was 48 and his mother, Hannah Southgate, was 41. He married Phebe Whittemore on 6 July 1792, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 23 March 1847, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Rawson Brook Burial Ground, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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."""""""
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a watchman, either in a town or castle, from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman, member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter ). In the Middle Ages the town waits typically combined the functions of watchmen and musicians through being trumpeters or pipers. There may also have been some late confusion with White or Wheat .
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