Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Hayden was born on 24 April 1712, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Hayden II, was 36 and her mother, Miriam Gibbs, was 30. She married Eliakim Gaylord on 10 November 1743, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 21 September 1776, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Elizabeth Haydon, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Elizabeth Gaylord, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Elizabeth in entry for Elezer, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin ‘descendant of Éideán’ and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes, armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. Alternative spellings include Hadden .
English: habitational name from any of various places called Haydon (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire), Heydon (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), or Hayden (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Cambridgeshire placename has Old English denu ‘valley’ as the final element.
Jewish: variant of Heiden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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