Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Root was born on 31 July 1751, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Root, was 45 and her mother, Anna Loomis, was 40. She married John Kent about 1771, in Southwick, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in August 1828, in Remsen, Remsen, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 77.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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