When Abraham Farren was born in 1777, in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Zebulon Farren, was 50 and his mother, Desire Hemingway, was 36. He married Hannah Chidsey in 1796, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1858, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81.
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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.
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.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Faracháin ‘descendant of Farachán’, a personal name perhaps derived from Ánrothán (see Hanrahan ) with the addition of an initial F-.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearáin, from a diminutive of fear ‘man’ or from Ó Fearadhaigh and the personal name Fearadhach (see Ferry ).
English: from either Middle English fair(e), far(e) ‘fair’ (see Fair ) or fear(r) ‘steer, ox’ + hin(e) ‘servant’, either as a nickname for a good or attractive servant, or as an occupational name for a servant who looked after oxen (see Farr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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