When Phoebe Lapham was born on 18 January 1759, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Joshua Lapham, was 37 and her mother, Hannah Sherman, was 31. She married Ebenezer Smith on 7 May 1779, in Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died in 1819, at the age of 60.
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The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
English: probably a habitational name from Lopham, a place in Norfolk, so named from an Old English personal name Loppa + hām ‘village, homestead’.
Americanized form of French Lapalme .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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