When Mary Alcott was born in 1744, in Farmingbury, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Alcott II, was 39 and her mother, Deborah Blakeslee, was 31. She married Obed Bradley on 28 June 1763, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 6 March 1825, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Old Cemetery, North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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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 Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
English: ostensibly a topographic name from any of a large number of places called in Old English as ‘the old cottage’ (Old English (e)ald + cot(e)). In fact, however, it is generally an altered form of Alcock , in part at least for euphemistic reasons.
History: Louisa May Alcott (1832–88), author of Little Women (1869), was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), who had changed the surname from Alcox. The family trace their descent from an Alcocke family who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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