When Ephraim Richmond Sr was born on 15 June 1734, in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Silas Pierce Richmond, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Harriet Emmons, was 19. He married Martha Seeley on 2 December 1754, in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 22 October 1800, in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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