When Samuel John Bloodworth was born about 1748, in New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, his father, Timothy James Bloodworth Sr, was 63 and his mother, Margaret Evans, was 35.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
"""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: possibly a habitational name from Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, named with the Old English personal name BlīTha + Old English worth ‘enclosure’. There are problems with this interpretation, and a lost placename in Yorkshire or the East Midlands may be the origin of the name.
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