When Hannah Holcomb was born on 28 August 1739, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Judah Holcomb, was 35 and her mother, Hannah Buttolph, was 28. She married Silas Hays on 16 November 1757, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 23 June 1823, in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Granby Cemetery, Hartford, 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.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from any of several places called Holcombe (Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset), from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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