When Cyrus Curtis was born on 12 December 1786, in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Benjamin Curtiss, was 35 and his mother, Esther Benham, was 35. He married Julia Strong about 1810, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 1 August 1875, in Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 88.
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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.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: nickname for a refined person, sometimes perhaps given ironically, from Middle English, Old French courteis, courtois, curtis ‘courtly, refined, urbane’ (derivative of Old French court; see Court 1).
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