Brief Life History of Ephraim
When Ephraim Starr was born on 9 June 1745, in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joseph Starr Jr, was 46 and his mother, Priscilla Roper, was 27. He married Hannah Beach on 13 November 1769, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States in 1745. He died on 20 September 1809, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Ephraim Starr, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Ephraim Starr, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Ephraim Starr, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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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."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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