When Lydia Cudworth was born on 19 April 1734, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, David Cudworth I, was 41 and her mother, Abigail Josselyn, was 22. She married David Bryant III on 6 February 1755, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1806, in Newcastle, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72.
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Historical Boundaries: 1760: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States
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 (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Cudworth in Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Cūtha + Old English worth ‘enclosure’. Some examples of the name may derive from Cudworth in Somerset, named with the Old English personal name Cuda + Old English worth.
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