When Sarah Beeman was born on 22 April 1775, in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Christopher Beeman, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Mann, was 29. She died on 9 January 1777, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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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."""""""
English (Kent): occupational name for a beekeeper, from Middle English bee-man ‘bee-keeper’ (Old English bēo + mann).
English (Kent): variant of Beaumont .
Americanized form of German Biemann or of its Dutch cognate Bieman.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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