When Obadiah Stevens Jr was born on 17 May 1745, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Obadiah Stevens, was 38 and his mother, Deborah Jessup, was 42. He married Elizabeth Lydia Scofield on 9 August 1764, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died in March 1811, in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 65.
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Post office est. July 26, 1775
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
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