Brief Life History of Caleb
When Caleb Barker was born on 13 March 1733, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Zebadiah Barker, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Lovejoy, was 33. He married Hannah Higgett on 23 June 1757, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in 1815, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Caleb Barker, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Caleb Barker, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Caleb Barker, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1770
Historical Boundaries: 1770: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States 1854: Androscoggin, Maine, United States
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: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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