When Catherine Bescherer was born on 14 August 1764, in Blairstown Township, Warren, New Jersey, United States, her father, Abraham Bescherer, was 27 and her mother, Susanna Manning, was 26.
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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."""
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Warren, New Jersey, United States
German: occupational name for a turner of wooden vessels, Middle High German becherer, an agent derivative of becher ‘cup, mug’.
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