When Benjamin Stebbins was born on 25 June 1744, in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Stebbins, was 50 and his mother, Mary Hinds, was 28. He married Mercy Aikens on 24 September 1772, in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1780. He died in 1814, in Norfolk, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 70.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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).
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