Brief Life History of Johannah
When Johannah Lane was born on 24 May 1721, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Lane, was 23 and her mother, Hepzibah Moss, was 19. She married Phineas Grover on 11 February 1742, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 23 December 1803, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Old Town Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Johannah Lane, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Johanah Lane, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Joanna Grover, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""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."""""""
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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