When Charity Stillwell was born in 1736, in Upper Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States, her father, Nicholas Stillwell, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Hand, was 18. She married Jacob Corson II on 15 October 1750, in Cape May, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She died in January 1803, in her hometown, at the age of 67, and was buried in Corson Burial Ground, Palermo, Upper Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States.
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"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
English: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Surrey. The placename derives from Middle English stighel, stile ‘stile’ + welle ‘well, spring, stream’. Compare Stile .
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