When Sarah Stillman was born on 1 April 1746, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, George Stillman, was 33 and her mother, Mary Burdick, was 27. She married Elias Crandall Sr. on 30 April 1769, in Hopkinton, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died after 1786, in her hometown.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
Americanized form of German Stillmann: variant of Still .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname or artificial name from German still ‘calm, quiet’ + Mann ‘man’ (Yiddish shtil + man).
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stile or steep ascent, from Middle English stile, stigel, stighel, steghel ‘stile; steep ascent’ (Old English stigel, stigol) + -man. See also Stile and compare Stiller .
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