When Athanase Dugas was born in 1753, in Acadia, New France, his father, Jean Dugas, was 41 and his mother, Marie Charlotte Godin, was 38. He married Rose LeBlanc on 15 September 1777, in Saint James, St. James, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 25 March 1791, in Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States.
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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."""""""
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Armand, Clovis, Emile, Amedee, Normand, Ovide, Pierre, Theogene, Alcee, Alcide.
French: topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, for someone who lived by a patch of waste land, Old French gast (see Gast ); or a habitational name for someone from Le Gas, the name of several places in various parts of France. This surname is most frequent in LA. It is also common among African Americans. Compare Duga , Dugar , and Dugat .
Slovak and Rusyn: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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