When Thankful Strait was born on 7 February 1767, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, David Strait, was 21 and her mother, Mary Aylesworth, was 19. She married Amos Kettell on 27 June 1793, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1767. She died on 22 May 1835, in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
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):
nickname from Middle English streight ‘straight, upright’, presumably applied in either a literal or figurative sense.
nickname from Middle English streit ‘strict, severe’ (Old French estreit).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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