Brief Life History of Joanna
When Joanna Hale was born on 19 March 1764, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Dea. Richard Hale, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Strong, was 37. She married Nathan Howard on 22 January 1784, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 22 April 1838, in her hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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- Joanna Hale, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Joanna Hale Howard, "Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939"
- Joanna Howard, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
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.
1785
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Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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