When Caleb Nichols was born on 30 September 1722, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Nichols, was 25 and his mother, Ruth Green, was 25. He married Lucy Smith on 10 March 1744, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He registered for military service in 1775. He died before 22 November 1784, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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."""""""
English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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