Priscilla Hayden

Brief Life History of Priscilla

When Priscilla Hayden was born on 31 March 1745, in Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Hayden II, was 30 and her mother, Esther Amy Allen, was 31. She married William Raymond in 1760, in Canaan Parish, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Canaan Parish, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America in 1762. She died on 27 December 1787, in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Raymond
1746–1826
Priscilla Hayden
1745–1787
Marriage: 1760
Esther Raymond
1762–1792
William Raymond
1764–
Thaddeus Raymond
1766–1766
Alpheus Raymond
1766–1767
Mary Raymond
1768–
Judd Raymond
1770–1848
Thomas Raymond
1772–1806
Eunice Raymond
1774–
Lewis Raymond
1777–1873
Deborah Raymond
1783–1847
Samuel Raymond
1784–1865

Sources (6)

  • Priscilla Hayden Raymond, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Priscilla (Hayden) Raymond on WikiTree
  • North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

World Events (4)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"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."""

1781 · The First Constitution

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.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .

English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.

Jewish: variant of Heiden .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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