When Lucy Steele was born on 24 June 1737, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Steele, was 46 and her mother, Elizabeth Hollister, was 43. She married Jonathan Pitkin on 11 September 1760, in Kensington, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 20 February 1804, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 66, and was buried in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
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