When Elizabeth Stocking was born on 21 December 1754, in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, David Stocking, was 24 and her mother, Abigail Spencer, was 26. She married Gabriel Ely on 3 June 1776, in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 25 April 1786, in her hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in Basham Cemetery, Haddam, Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Established
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
English: from Middle English stocking ‘ground cleared of stumps’ (Old English stoccing). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or near ground cleared of stumps, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stocking Gate in South Kirkby (Yorkshire).
South German: habitational name from any of several places in Bavaria and Styria named Stocking.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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