Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Goss was born on 2 February 1759, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Goss, was 25 and her mother, Eunice Bancroft, was 19. She married George Frederick Shepard on 9 June 1775, in Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 5 June 1777, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Jemime Goos, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jemime Goos, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Jemime, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"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."""
Name Meaning
English, German, and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gozzo, Gauz (Middle English, Old French Gosse), short forms of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’), rarely also on the element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’. In Middle English Gosse was frequently used as a short form of the double diminutive Goscelin (see Joslin ). Geats (Old English gēatas, Old Scandinavian gautar) were the Scandinavian people formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden, their name being closely related to that of the Goths (Old English gotan, Old Scandinavian gotar). Both ethnic names are presumably derived from a Proto-Germanic word meaning ‘to pour’. The relationship between Geats and Goths is controversial and in the name elements the two ethnicities are not always distinguishable. This surname is rare in France, where the common form is Gosse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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