When Moses Killam was born in 1759, in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Zadock Killam, was 37 and his mother, Hannah Button, was 42. He married Mary Polly King about 1779, in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Middle Smithfield Township, Pike, Pennsylvania, United States in 1820. He died on 15 May 1831, in Pike, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Paupack Cemetery, Palmyra Township, Pike, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
English (mainly Yorkshire): variant of Kilham, a habitational name from any of the places in Northumberland and Yorkshire, so named either from Old English cylnum ‘(at) the kilns’, dative plural of cyln, or from Old English cyln ‘kiln’ or the personal name Cylla + Old Norse holmr ‘small island, water meadow’. This surname is rare in Britain.
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