When Lewis Crabtree was born in 1770, in Allegany, Maryland, United States, his father, James Crabtree II, was 33 and his mother, Mary Baltzer, was 31.
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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: 1789: Allegany, Maryland, United States
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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