When Clarissa Risley was born about 1794, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Captain George Risley Sr., was 32 and her mother, Jerusha Phelps, was 30. She died about 1794, at the age of 2.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: habitational name from Risley in Winwick (Lancashire), Risley (Derbyshire), Riseley (Bedfordshire), or Riseley Farm in Swallowfield (Berkshire). The placenames derive from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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