When Huldah Holkins was born about 1788, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Joel Holkins Jr, was 31 and her mother, Hulda Allen, was 22. She married Dennis Bement on 19 November 1807, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850 and South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1860. She died on 20 October 1866, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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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.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
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