When Lemual Humphreville was born about 1736, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, John Humphreville, was 35 and his mother, Rebecka Clark, was 39. He married Molley Beecher on 30 July 1761. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 19 April 1798, in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Trinity Episcopal Church, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Possibly meaning ‘devoted to God’ in Hebrew; it was borne in the Bible by an obscure king who was lectured by his mother on the perils of strong drink and the virtues of a dutiful wife (Proverbs 31). He is mentioned by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales, where his name is carefully distinguished from the more familiar Samuel . Lemuel Gulliver was the unusual name of the hero of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ).
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