When Ann Joy was born on 15 June 1701, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Joy II, was 30 and her mother, Marah Eastman, was 26. She married William Gill Sr on 13 November 1729, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 13 December 1779, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78.
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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: from Joie, a French female personal name or occasionally from its male equivalent, given especially since the Reformation as an omen or well-wishing name. In some cases the name may also be a nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle English joie ‘joy’.
History: Thomas Joy (c. 1610–78), an architect and builder born probably in Hingham, Norfolk, England, appears in land records in Boston, MA, in 1636. He had a considerable influence on Boston architecture.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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