When Sophronia Kilbourn was born on 23 January 1796, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Kilbourn, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Sellew, was 26. She married Samuel Whiting on 6 November 1816, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850. She died on 7 May 1867, in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 71.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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English (mainly Leicestershire): variant of Kilburn .
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Kühlborn: habitational name from a place so named in former East Prussia; the meaning of the name being kühl ‘cool’ + born ‘well, spring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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