When Preserved Merrihew was born on 30 March 1704, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Merrihew, was 30 and his mother, Hope Fish, was 29. He married Sarah Taber on 2 April 1727, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He registered for military service in 1775. His occupation is listed as farmer, stone wall builder in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. He died after 1788.
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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."""""""
English and Irish: most probably an altered form of Welsh Meredith (which is found as Meriday in 16th and 17th century English sources), or possibly of English Mayhew . Compare Mallalieu .
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