Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Woodward was born on 3 August 1729, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Benjamin Woodward Sr, was 39 and his mother, Mary Wright, was 37. He married Sarah Starr on 3 September 1752, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1776, in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jesse Woodart, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jesse Wooddart, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jesse Woodart, "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 forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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