Brief Life History of Abijah
When Abijah Sears was born on 8 August 1774, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Knowles Sears, was 36 and his mother, Susanna Townsend, was 37. He married Catharine Boughton on 8 January 1797, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 1 September 1839, in Lake, Orange, New York, United States, at the age of 65.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair ‘son of Saoghar’, a borrowing in Anglo-Norman Ireland of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Saher, Seier (Old French Seheri), from ancient Germanic Sigeheri, Sighari, composed of the elements sig‘victory’ + hari, heri ‘army’. See Sayer 5.
English: variant of Sayers .
Americanized form of French (or French Canadian) Cyr and French Saint-Cyr (see St. Cyr ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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