Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Bush was born on 20 July 1756, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jotham Bush, was 27 and her mother, Hephzibah Keyes, was 25. She died on 16 January 1846, in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Lucy Bush, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Betsy in entry for Betsy Fisk, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Betty Fisk in entry for Moses Fisk, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch .
Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš, Búš (see Bus ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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