When Reuben Kendall was born on 20 May 1724, in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ephraim Kendall, was 34 and his mother, Judith Walker, was 33. He married Judith Brown on 20 April 1749, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 November 1805, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 81, and was buried in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""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."""""""
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, which takes its name from the river Kent + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’, or from the valley of the river Kent itself.
English (of Welsh origin): from an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted, high’ + delw ‘image, effigy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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