When Susanna Walbridge was born on 15 September 1765, in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, Gen Ebenezer Walbridge, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Stebbins, was 28. She married Samuel Chapin in 1781, in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 4 daughters. She died in November 1820, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Oquawka, Henderson, Illinois, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English (Dorset): habitational name from a lost place called Walbridge, recorded as such in 1700, in Hooke (Dorset). The exact location is uncertain but it may be identifiable with the present Hooke Bridge, over the River Hooke. The placename may derive from Old English wǣl ‘deep pool’ or walt ‘unsteady’ + brycg ‘bridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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