When Bethuel Mapes was born in 1691, in Southold, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States, her father, William Mapes I, was 37 and her mother, Mrs. Hannah Mapes, was 37.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th 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 (Essex and Norfolk):
variant of Mabe (itself a variant of Mabb ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, and with devoicing of b to p.
variant of Mapp , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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