When Anna Stebbins was born on 23 January 1785, in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Benjamin Stebbins, was 40 and her mother, Mercy Aikens, was 34. She died on 25 February 1806, in her hometown, at the age of 21, and was buried in Barnard Village Cemetery, Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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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.
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from Stebbing (Essex). The placename means ‘the people of a man called Stybba’ or ‘the people of the tree stumps’, from an Old English personal name Stybba or Old English stybb ‘tree stump’ + the groupname suffix -ingas.
History: Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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