When Sarah Chilson was born on 19 August 1724, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Chilson, was 50 and her mother, Sarah Wetmore, was 31. She married Increase Wetmore on 24 March 1746, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 16 October 1795, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 71.
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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."""""""
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.
English: habitational name from Chilson in Oxfordshire, named with Old English cild ‘young man’ (see Child ) + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
History: It is not known when this surname was first brought to America, but it was already established in CT in the early 18th century. Daniel Chilson of Weathersfield, CT, was born c. 1720 and on 4 October 1745 married Sybil Stanclift in Middlesex County, CT.
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