When Clarissa A Lockwood was born on 29 December 1773, in Pound Ridge, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, Ebenezer Lockwood Sr. - Major - Esq., was 36 and her mother, Hannah Smith, was 31. She married Capt Jesse Richards in October 1814. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 12 October 1854, in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Canoe Hill Cemetery, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
English: habitational name from one of three places called Lockwood, one in Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and another in Staffordshire. The Yorkshire and Staffordshire placenames both derive from Old English loc ‘lock, enclosure, fold’ + wudu ‘wood’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English loc + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’. The surname appears to have migrated to East Anglia.
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