Sarah Frank
1767–Female
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States
The Life of Sarah
When Sarah Frank was born in August 1767, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, her father, Thomas Frank, was 50 and her mother, Ann Babbidge, was 39. She died in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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Family Time Line
Thomas Frank
1717–1795
Ann Babbidge
1728–1827
James Frank
1752–1839
Rachel Frank
1755–
Thomas Frank
1760–1831
John Frank
1765–
Levi Frank
1766–1829
Sarah Frank
1767–
William Frank
1774–1836
Parents and Siblings
1717–1795Male
1728–1827Female
siblings
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James Frank
1752–1839Male
1755–Female
1760–1831Male
1765–Male
1766–1829Male
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World Events (3)
1776
Age 9
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 9
"""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."""""""
1804 · Whitehead Light
Age 37
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
Name Meaning
1 German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, a Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the river Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I ( c. 466–511 ) and Charlemagne ( 742–814 ), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name. The term Frank in eastern Mediterranean countries was used, in various vernacular forms, to denote the Crusaders and their descendants, and the American surname may also be an Americanized form of such a form.2 English, Dutch, German, etc.: from the personal name Frank, in origin an ethnic name for a Frank. This also came be used as an adjective meaning ‘free’, ‘open-hearted’, ‘generous’, deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. It was also used as a Jewish personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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