When Levi Downing was born on 1 October 1746, in Peagscomsueck, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Downing, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Gates, was 42. He married Keziah Cleveland on 21 November 1771, in Peagscomsueck, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 2 October 1781, in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 35.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín (see Dineen ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dun(n)ing, Douning (Old English Dunning, a derivative of Old English Dunna (see Dunn ).
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the hill, an -ing derivative of Middle English doun ‘hill’, equivalent to Downer . This formation is characteristic of Devon (compare Brooking ).
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