When Rebecca Beavers was born in 1770, her father, William Beavers, was 48 and her mother, Abigail Hampton, was 46. She married Richard Pratt in 1789, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 16 June 1847, in Bibb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Centreville, Bibb, Alabama, 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."""""""
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: variant of Beaver , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
History: William Walter Beavers, from whom many American bearers of this surname are descended, was born in Wales on July 25, 1755 and married Elizabeth Ragsdale in Lunenburg County, VA. He died c. 1807 in Elbert County, GA.
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