When Sarah Saffell was born in 1762, in Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Saffell, was 51 and her mother, Mary Ann Watson, was 45. She married Kinsey Harrison on 9 March 1780, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1844, in Carroll, Maryland, United States, at the age of 82.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Maryland is the 7th state.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English (Essex): from the Middle English personal name Safugel (Old Norse sǽfogl ‘sea-bird, especially the cormorant’), not recorded as a personal name in Scandinavia, but common in England after the Norman Conquest. In some cases with voicing of intervocalic /f/ to /v/, there may have been confusion with Saville .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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