Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Rockwood was born on 9 September 1752, in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Thomas Rockwood, was 41 and his mother, Abigail Maccane, was 37. He married Abigail Parmenter on 31 October 1774, in Hinsdale, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters.
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- Thomas Rockwood, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Thomas Rockwood, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Thomas Rockwood in entry for Polly Rockwood, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
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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."""
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rok(e) ‘rook’ + wod(e) ‘wood’ (Old English hrōc, wudu). The name may be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a wood inhabited by rooks, or habitational, for someone from any of several minor places so named, such as Rookwood Hall in Abbess Roding (Essex), Rook Wood in Finchingfield (Essex), or Rockwood in East Grinstead (Sussex).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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