Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Brooks was born on 25 June 1730, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Brooks, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Fletcher, was 40. She married Thomas Drury on 27 November 1746, in Grafton Gore, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 17 August 1807, in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Auburn, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Elisabeth Brooks, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850
- Elizabeth Drury, "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."""
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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