Elizabeth Hines was born about 1733, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, British Colonial America. She married Jonas Peterson on 12 April 1764, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
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When the American Revolution began in 1775, the people of Delaware were not sure they wanted to split from England. When it came time to vote for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, even the delegates were split with two delegates in favor of independence and one against. The night before the vote, Caesar Rodney, who was for independence, was in the city of Dover. When he learned that the vote was taking place, he rode 70 miles at night through a thunderstorm to Philadelphia in order to vote so that Delaware would join the other colonies in declaring independence.
In October 1765, Delaware sent two delegates to a congress of the colonies in New York to deliberate on a joint colonial response to recent British measures, in particular, the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765. The two men were landholder Caesar Rodney and attorney Thomas McKean: the two men and assemblyman George Read would continue to play a role in the movement for independence. Delaware declared its independence from Great Britain on June 15, 1776, and signed the Declaration of Independence with its fellow colonies on July 4.
Irish (Offaly): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidhin ‘descendant of Eidhin’, a personal name of uncertain origin. It may be a derivative of eidhean ‘ivy’, or it may represent an altered form of the placename Aidhne. The principal family of this name is descended from Guaire of Aidhne, King of Connacht, who for over a thousand years were chiefs of a territory in east County Galway. There appears to have been another branch of the family located in east County Limerick. In Ulster, Hynds or Hines can also be variants of Hoyne .
English: post-medieval variant of Hine , with excrescent -s.
Americanized form of German Heins or Heinz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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