Brief Life History of Silas
When Silas Galpin was born on 18 November 1786, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Cyprian Galpin, was -5 and his mother, Lauratta Cannon, was -6. He died on 30 September 1823, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Wilcox Cemetery, Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Silas Galpin, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Silas Galpin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Silas Galpin, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
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.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
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.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset, of Norman origin): nickname from Old French galopin, galpin, apparently a diminutive of the Old French noun galop or the base of the verb galoper, and therefore denoting ‘one who gallops’. It may have been used of a gentleman who habitually rode his horse at a gallop or of a professional rider or messenger. The noun galopin is recorded only in Modern French, with the sense ‘errand boy’, and in modern English (late 16th century) with the unexpected sense ‘kitchen boy, turnspit’ but perhaps also ‘errand boy, page boy’. However, medieval bearers of the English surname were men of property, indicating that galopin was originally used of men with a considerably higher status than an errand boy.
French: variant of Galopin or Galpin, with the same sense as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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