When William B. Covington was born in 1769, in South Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, William Covington, was 30 and his mother, Possible Adaline or Adoline, was 29. He married Priscilla Bloodworth on 28 February 1806, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1856, in Ledbetter, Livingston, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Livingston, Kentucky, 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."""""""
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire named Covington, from an Old English personal name Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
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