When Susannah Sipple was born on 23 February 1741, in Kent, Delaware, British Colonial America, her father, Waitman Sipple Sr., was 68 and her mother, Lydia Lisenbee, was 44. She married Harland Owen Griffin on 13 April 1761, in Kent, Delaware, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 21 April 1787, in Kent, Delaware, United States, at the age of 46.
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From 1754-1763, the French and Indian War took place. The fighting that took place in the area of Delaware was in the upper Delaware River Valley. The Delaware Indians claimed independence from the Iroquois who allied with Britain. In 1755, Delaware attacked the Moravian settlement and Brodhead residence.
In 1764, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the western boundary of Delaware. This became part of the Mason-Dixon Line.
When the American Revolution began in 1775, the people of Delaware were not sure they wanted to split from England. When it came time to vote for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, even the delegates were split with two delegates in favor of independence and one against. The night before the vote, Caesar Rodney, who was for independence, was in the city of Dover. When he learned that the vote was taking place, he rode 70 miles at night through a thunderstorm to Philadelphia in order to vote so that Delaware would join the other colonies in declaring independence.
German: variant of Sippel .
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