When Daniel McPeak was born in 1744, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel McPeak, was 29 and his mother, Sara Ann Laverty, was 29. He married Ann Thatcher on 12 June 1764, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1811, in United States, at the age of 67.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
Irish (northern) and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Péice, a patronymic from the personal name Péic, which is not of Gaelic etymology. Woulfe links it to Old English Pic (see Pike 5), although MacLysaght derives it from Old English peac ‘thickset man’.
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