When William Claud was born about 1734, in Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Claud, was 26 and his mother, Hannah Blake, was 24. He married Charlotte Francis about 1765, in Southampton, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He died before 1811, in Southampton, Virginia, 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."""""""
English: altered form of Cloud .
French: from an old vernacular form of the personal name Claude .
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with the variant Claude in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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