When Bildad Ensign was born on 10 May 1788, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Isaac Ensign, was 40 and his mother, Lurannah Pettibone, was 40. He married Melissa Holcomb on 12 January 1817, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 19 May 1865, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
Post office est. April 18, 1801
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: of uncertain etymology. From the 16th to the 19th century, the English vocabulary word ensign denoted a junior rank of infantry officer, which may be the source of the surname.
History: James Ensign (known as ‘the Puritan’) was born in Chilham, Kent,England, in 1606 and came to Hartford, CT, before 1644.
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