When Tabitha Trott was born on 2 March 1679, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Trott, was 14 and her mother, Ann Coleman, was 15. She married Joseph Brown about 1707, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died after 6 June 1729.
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"""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 (Somerset and Devon): in southwestern England, usually a variant of Trout .
South German: metonymic variant of Trotter 2.
English (Somerset and Devon): nickname, either for one who moves quickly, at the pace of a trotting horse, from Middle English trot(te) (Old French trot) ‘trot’, perhaps given to a messenger (see Trotter , Trotman ); or occasionally perhaps from Middle English trot(te), trat(te) ‘old woman, hag’ (Anglo-Norman French trote).
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