Brief Life History of Silas
When Silas Billing was born on 13 November 1741, in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Zechariah Billings, was 38 and his mother, Ruth Meekins, was 41. He married Miriam Dickinson on 25 November 1773. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1741. He died on 6 June 1808, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Hatfield, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Capt Silas Billings, "United States Census, 1790"
- Silas Billing, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Silas Billing, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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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."""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: either a patronymic from the Middle English personal name Billing, derived from Old English bil ‘sword’, or a habitational name from Great and Little Billing in Northamptonshire, meaning ‘(settlement of) the followers (Old English -ingas) of a man called Bill(a) or Bȳdel’.
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, formed with a cognate of Old Saxon bīl ‘sword’.
Danish and Norwegian: from an Old Danish personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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