Brief Life History of Gideon
When Gideon Cornell was born on 5 February 1745, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Caleb Cornell, was 28 and his mother, Delia Gifford, was 17. He married Elizabeth Tucker in 1770, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 21 June 1825, in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Gedean Cornell, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Gideon Conell, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Gideon in entry for Pardon Cornell, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · Rhode Island Declares Independence
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English: shortened form of Cornwell , Cornwall , or of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook, recess’; or from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old English corn ‘corn, grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some other place elsewhere similarly named.
English: variant of Corney .
English: possibly also a nickname from French corneille ‘rook, crow’, probably denoting a chatterer or someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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