When Glover Mansfield was born in 1767, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathan Mansfield, was 49 and his mother, Deborah Dayton, was 43. He married Mary Aikens on 5 April 1792, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 26 October 1849, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Colony, British Colonial America.
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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.
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’, from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.
Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville 3).
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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