Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Woodman was born on 6 May 1703, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Deacon Archelaus Woodman Sr., was 30 and her mother, Hannah Swett, was 28. She married Joshua Hale on 13 October 1716, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1780, in her hometown, at the age of 77.
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- Hannah Woodman, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Hannah Woodman, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Hannah in entry for Isaac Hale, "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."""
Name Meaning
English:
occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward ), from Middle English wodeman ‘woodman’. In some instances this may be a variant of Wadman .
from the Middle English personal name Wudemann (Old English Wuduman, from wudu ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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