When Caleb Taft was born on 14 April 1757, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Caleb Taft, was 33 and his mother, Susanna Albee, was 33. He married Hannah Thayer on 9 July 1781, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 14 January 1840, in Mendon, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls, Monroe, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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 (mainly Staffordshire and Derbyshire): variant of Toft .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial or metonymic occupational name from German Taft ‘taffeta’.
History: Robert Taft (born c. 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. — Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the US and chief justice of the US Supreme Court.
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