When Rosanna Woodford was born on 9 April 1757, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Woodford, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Phelps, was 28. She married Josiah Wilcox Jr. on 28 November 1782, in Avon, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 27 March 1850, in Avon, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Cider Brook Cemetery, Avon, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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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.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + ford ‘ford’, such as Woodford in Cheshire, Cornwall, Essex, Northamptonshire, and Wiltshire. In Scotland, the name is derived from Woodford in Saint Boswells (Roxburghshire).
History: Thomas Woodford emigrated from Lincolnshire, England, to NY in 1690.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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