Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Briggs was born on 3 October 1769, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Benjamin Briggs, was 46 and her mother, Rebecca Curtis, was 39. She married John Mann on 18 June 1803. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Scituate, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1861. She died on 9 August 1861, at the age of 91, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Rebecca Mann in household of Reuben Mann, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rebecca Briggs, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Rebecca Briggs Mann, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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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."""
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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