When Abigail Stanley was born on 21 March 1732, in Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Timothy Stanley, was 26 and her mother, Mary Mygatt, was 24. She married Captain Shubael Griswold II on 8 June 1754, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 April 1787, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in West Torrington Cemetery, Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Torrington, in Litchfield County, is located in northwest Connecticut on the Naugatuck River. Originally called Mast Swamp for the pines harvested for use as ship masts, Torrington was settled in 1735, incorporated in 1740, and chartered as a city in 1923. In the years before the Civil War, Torringford, a section of Torrington, was a transportation center for the Underground Railroad.
Created on October 9, 1751 from Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford Counties
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
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