When Ebenezer Street was born in January 1735, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Street, was 43 and his mother, Mary Raymond, was 40. He married Rachel Smith in 1760, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He was buried in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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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.
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.
Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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