Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Kelsey was born on 21 July 1743, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Daniel Kelsey, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Kelsey, was 37. He married Huldah Ray on 17 March 1785, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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- Moses Kelcey, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Moses Kelcey, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Records of Arline Bonsteel Hansen - Kelsey Gen. Vol. 2 page 172 (1929) Vol. 1 apges 278 -279 (1966)
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
1785
DLESEX COUNTY was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed at the May session, 1785, and at that time consisted of six towns. Of these, Mifldletown, Chatham, Haddam, and East Haddam were taken from the county of Hartford, and Saybrook and Killingworth from New London coun
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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