When Hope Durfee was born on 29 September 1748, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Judge Thomas Durfee, was 26 and her mother, Patience Borden, was 17. She married Walter Chaloner on 6 February 1777, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 19 April 1834, at the age of 85, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Altered form of French Durfé: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from Urfé in Loire. The surname Durfé is virtually non-existing in France.
History: The name was brought to England by Huguenot refugees in the 16th century. Thomas Durfee, the ancestor of the Durfee family in America, was born in 1643 and came to Providence, RI, in 1660.
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