When Joseph Spinney was born on 18 August 1703, in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Spinney, was 39 and his mother, Christiana, was 29. He married Jane McClure about 1725, in Kittery, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Kittery, York, Maine, United States in 1703.
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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."""""""
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: from Middle English spyn(n)eye ‘spinney’ i.e. a small patch of woodland, clump of trees (Old French espinei ‘place where thorn trees grow’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a thicket or small copse, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Spinney Abbey in Wicken (Cambridgeshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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