When Mabel Risley was born in 1710, in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, John Risley I, was 33 and her mother, Mary Arnold, was 27. She married Jonathan Webster III on 18 February 1730, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 2 January 1781, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 71, and was buried in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut 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.
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’.
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