When James Hitchcock was born on 30 December 1782, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Apollos Hitchcock, was 23 and his mother, Maria Roxana King, was 20. He died on 11 March 1804, in his hometown, at the age of 21, and was buried in Lancaster, Lancaster, Erie, New York, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English: from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Hitch , a pet form of Richard , with the Middle English diminutive suffix -cok. Compare Heacock .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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