When Anna Richmond was born on 1 October 1750, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Barzillai Richmond, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Knight, was 31. She married Col. Silas Talbot on 1 March 1772, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 25 April 1781, in her hometown, at the age of 30.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
habitational name from Richmond (North Yorkshire). The placename was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from any of numerous places in France named with Old French riche ‘mighty, strong’ + munt, mont ‘mountain, hill’. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname.
occasionally a variant of Richman , with excrescent -d. The two names were probably often confused.
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