Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Balch was born on 21 December 1763, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Ebenezer Balch, was 40 and her mother, Lois Belden, was 26. She married Wait Goodrich in 1788, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850. She died on 17 July 1853, at the age of 89, and was buried in Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Lucy B Goodrich in household of Miclah Sill, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Balch, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Lucy Goodrich, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
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.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset and Wiltshire): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English balche or belche, presumably from Old English bælce ‘belch, belching; stomach; pride, arrogance’, probably applied in the sense ‘swelling pride, arrogance’, but in some cases it may have been acquired by a man given to belching.
English (Somerset and Wiltshire): possibly a nickname from Middle English balche, a noun or adjective derived from Old English bælcan ‘to shout’, for a man who habitually shouted.
Americanized form of German Bolch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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